Alfred the Great Quotes
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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I work like a dog, really. I go over scripts like a mad man and just want to make sure I have my house built, so that I can just kind of go nuts inside of it.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
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It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.
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In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.
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I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
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The greater the man the greater the courtesy.
