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• What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

  Harrison Ford

  Actors, Gave Up

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• Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.

  Al Franken

  School, Government, Careers

  Al Franken (2004). “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, p.6, Penguin

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• Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Diversity, Enemy

  "The Christian Science Monitor", April 1, 1974.

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  Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

  Betty Friedan

  Real, Women, Memorable

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• Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sports, Honesty, Integrity

  Oceana ch. 5 (1886)

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• There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

  John Galsworthy

  World, Politics, Impossible

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.3926, Delphi Classics

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• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, School, Equality

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.16, A&C Black

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• I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Humble, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.180, Vintage

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• Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community.

  Teri Garr

  Talking, Support, Community

  "Multiple Sclerosis". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2004.

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• An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Men, Fellow Man

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.17, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Fellow Man, Psalms

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• After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Holiday, Vacation, Busy

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

  Tom Hanks

  Optimistic, Optimism, Tolerance

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• Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

  Thomas Hardy

  War, Bars, Crowns

  "The Man He Killed" l. 17 (1909)

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• Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Atheist, Self

  "On Spiritual Truths" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

  William Hazlitt

  Pain, Giving, Littles

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• Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Country, Horse

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.101

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• If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

  Anna Held

  Thinking, Married, Millionaire

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• There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

  James Herriot

  Retirement, Fall, Animal

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, Time Magazine, December 12, 2002.

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• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  Napoleon Hill

  War, Men, Desire

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.581, Penguin

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• This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Meaningful, Awards, Celluloid

  On receiving American Film Institute's 1979 Lifetime Achievement Award, recalled on his death, April 29, 1980.

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• Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Boys, Views

  "Please, stop the Mark Zuckerberg love train" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2010.

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• It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Ideas, Evil

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  A. E. Housman

  Hurt, Beer, Men

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62

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