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• We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

  Matthew Modine

  Husband, Father, Important

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• Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

  Andrew Jackson

  Spring, Historical, Benefits

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.437

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• Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Voice, Numbers

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• The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Education, Teacher, Trying

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• The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Eye, Soul

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• When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him.

  Origen

  Jesus, Spring, Men

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• I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "How to be Lovely". Book by Melissa Hellstern, 2005.

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• For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

  John Conyers

  Children, Men, Middle East

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• Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Selfish, Sensual, Failing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1958). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• This many-headed monster, Multitude.

  Samuel Daniel

  Monsters

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.47

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• The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Mean, Cat

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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  No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Depression, Being Yourself, Men

  1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.20.

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• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)

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• To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

  Ronald Blythe

  Past, Age, Ordinary

  Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

  Charles Baudelaire

  War, Party, Book

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• I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

  Taliesin

  Shapes, Form, Consistent

  Taliesin, “The Battle Of Goddeu”

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• I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

  George V

  War, Years, Earth

  Message read at Terlincthun Cemetery, Boulogne, 13 May 1922, in 'The Times' 15 May 1922

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• The multitude of people fail because they talk failure.

  T. B. Joshua

  People, Failing

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• A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

  Saul Bellow

  Impression, Novel, Balanced

  Speech on receiving the Nobel Prize, 1976

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• Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

  Walt Whitman

  Math, Leaves Of Grass, Bears

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• The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

  Denis Diderot

  Jesus, Blood, Literature

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

  John Dos Passos

  Change, Break Up, Being Alone

  John Dos Passos (2010). “The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed”, p.443, Transaction Publishers

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• There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

  Goldwin Smith

  Country, Black, Would Be

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.

  Ron Chernow

  Bears, Bulls, May

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• The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

  James F. Cooper

  Life, Business, Vision

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