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No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
Questions
Charles Steinmetz

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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Seduction
Henri B. Stendhal

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Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
Baseball
Casey Stengel

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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Honesty
Leslie Stephen

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Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
Color
John Sterling

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Man is a substance clad in shadows.
Humankind
John Sterling

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Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.
Nature
Gil Stern

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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
Behavior
Benzel Sternan

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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Respectability
Laurence Sterne

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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
Doctors
Laurence Sterne

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Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.
Security
E. R. Stettinius

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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
Literature
Wallace Stevens

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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Modern and Modernism
Wallace Stevens

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The imagination is man's power over nature.
Imagination
Wallace Stevens

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A hungry man is not a free man.
Freedom
Adlai E. Stevenson

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Politicians and Politics
Adlai E. Stevenson

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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
Firmness
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Words
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Survival
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Generations
Adlai E. Stevenson

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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Civilization
Adlai E. Stevenson

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Age and Aging
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Humankind
Robert Louis Stevenson

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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
Youth
Robert Louis Stevenson

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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Husbands
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun