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The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Winners and Winning
Andrew Carnegie

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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Communication
Dale Carnegie

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Mistakes
Dale Carnegie

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In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
Names
John Carpenter

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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Suffering
Alexis Carrel

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.
Belief
Lewis Carroll

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Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
Nature
James Carswell

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I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
Modern and Modernism
Angela Carter

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
Relationships
Angela Carter

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I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.
Lust
Jimmy Carter

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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.
Conflict
Giovani della Casa

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
Age and Aging
Eli Cass

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Knowledge
Carlos Castaneda

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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
Uncategorised
Fidel Castro

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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
Crafts
Willa Cather

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Anger
Cato The Elder

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What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
Promises
Catullus

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Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else.
Job
Nashua Cavalier

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The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.
Trust
Camillo Benso Conte Di Cavour

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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Desire
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
Leaders and Leadership
Miguel De Cervantes

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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Tact and Tactfulness
Miguel De Cervantes

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
Friends and Friendship
Miguel De Cervantes

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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Creation
Miguel De Cervantes

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Every man is the son of his own works.
Work
Miguel De Cervantes

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