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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

  John Carmack

  Zero, Teaching, Games

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• I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Stupidity, Fool, Honest

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Simple, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sea, Water, Atheism

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.185, Collector's Library

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• A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Lonely, Travel, Loneliness

  "Charlie Chaplin's Los Angeles: a black and white odyssey" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.

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• If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

  Frank A. Clark

  Motivational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Dull, Might

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

  Annie Dillard

  Birthday, Self, Ironic

  1974 Of self-consciousness. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.6.

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• There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

  Norman Douglas

  Men, Doe, Nucleus

  Norman Douglas (1955). “A Selection from His Works”

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• No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting,Washington, D.C., 22 Oct. 1883

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• Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Responsibility, Top Management

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.8, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

  T. S. Eliot

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

  Jim Elliot

  Sister, Thinking, Sparring Partner

  "Shadow of the Almighty". Book by Elisabeth Elliot, Chapter 4, 1989.

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• Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

  Havelock Ellis

  Men, Tragedy, Genius

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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