Charles Dickens Quotes
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
Charles Dickens
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
Zoe Saldana
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
Rafael Moneo
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
C. Wright Mills
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
V. S. Naipaul
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
Orison Swett Marden
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
Laraine Day
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
Caitlin Moran
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Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
Gareth Gates
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
Fatema Mernissi
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Xun Kuang
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You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
Kate Klise
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I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.
Joanne Rowling
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin
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The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
Charles Dickens
