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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Integrity
Marcus Aurelius

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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Feminism
Simone De Beauvoir

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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Punctuality
Samuel Beckett

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A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
Skepticism
Morris Bender

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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
Sex
Bertolt Brecht

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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
Character
Lord Chesterfield

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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Experts
William Cowper

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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
Skepticism
John Dewey

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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
Impartiality
George Eliot

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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
Skepticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
Wealth
Desiderius Erasmus

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Skeptics are never deceived.
Skepticism
French Proverb

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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
Skepticism
Robert Frost

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There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
Fraud
Gaelic Proverb

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted
Love
Arlo Guthrie

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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Doctors
Hippocrates

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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
Books - Reading
Thomas Hood

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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
Consistency
Horace

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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Writers and Writing
Horace

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Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Promises
Edgar Watson Howe

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Friends and Friendship
St. Jerome

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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Critics and Criticism
James Russell Lowell

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Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
Feminism
Clare Boothe Luce

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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Honesty
Don Marquis

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The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
Skepticism
George Jean Nathan

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