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• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Finding Yourself, Nineteen

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les belles images”

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• There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

  Gary Bauer

  America, People, Mailboxes

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• Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Brother, Book, Reading

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.36, Wesleyan University Press

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• Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

  John Barrymore

  Bad Ass, Atheism, Famous Last Words

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.

  Bob Barr

  Government, Generations, Done

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• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

  Francis of Assisi

  Religious, Peace, Men

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• What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

  Aristotle

  Character, Anxiety, Political

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!

  Ted Allen

  Dog, Crazy, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

  Robert Browning

  Girl, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• Anytime you have a fellow artist say, 'Loving the new Luke Bryan album,' that's awesome.

  Luke Bryan

  Artist, Albums, Luke

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• There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

  Martin Buber

  Mean, Men, Principles

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• Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

  Denis Diderot

  Mean, Power, Order

  "Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage". Book by Denis Diderot, 1796.

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• No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Command, Humans

  "L'Encyclopédie". Book by Denis Diderot, 1751-1766.

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• The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fate, Dirt, Sides

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.411, Lulu.com

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• Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

  Davy Crockett

  Pigs, Hands, Tails

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• Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Dull, Might

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• As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Real, Artist, Hats

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

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• My fellow Americans, all of us in this grand hall and everybody watching at home, when we vote in this election, we'll be deciding what kind of country we want to live in. If you want a winner-take-all, you're-on-your-own society, you should support the Republican ticket. But if you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibility, a we're-all-in-this-together society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Baptism, Body

  Tony Campolo (2008). “Letters To A Young Evangelical”, p.70, Basic Books

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• The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

  Sid Caesar

  Funny, Stories, Dull

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Men, Hands

  "The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents". Book by William A. DeGregorio (p. 133), 1984.

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• Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...

  Julie Burchill

  Men, Immature, Reluctance

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Yelling, Political, Politics

  "Why Republican Politicians Keep Selling Out Freedom" by Jo Jorgensen, gos.sbc.edu. 1996.

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• Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

  James Buchan

  Self Worth, Thinking, Bankers

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