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MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee,… — Ambrose Bierce
I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I… — Anais Nin
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on — Francois La Rochefoucauld
Is an intervention of the saints possible compared to an intervention of the man over Destiny? Is the saint - which man defined as a… — Sorin Cerin
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss — John Locke
Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are… — Dr Carl Sagan
It is extremely naive to think that mankind is capable of sinning against god. If god exists as a being who watches us, judges us,… — Gregory Wallace Campbell
The saints thus receive qualities that are forbidden to man, and these qualities are owed precisely to the fact that man is capable of loving… — Sorin Cerin
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. — Albert Einstein
I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but… — William Faulkner
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations — Rene Descartes
The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future — Joseph Conrad
An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in… — Samuel Butler
That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that… — Marcus Allen
Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh… — Lewis Cass
If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of. — John Barrow
What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is… — Lawrence Eagleburger
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice,… — William Falconer
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. — Mohandas Gandhi

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