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Barry Mann

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HORACE MANN Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.
HORACE MANN A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering...
HORACE MANN Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
HORACE MANN What is uttered is finished and done with.
THOMAS MANN Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, ...
THOMAS MANN A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once m...
THOMAS MANN Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
SALLY MANN Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
THOMAS MANN Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also,...
THOMAS MANN There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced ...
AIMEE MANN Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversitie...
HORACE MANN For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endura...
THOMAS MANN The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
SALLY MANN Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the ri...
HORACE MANN Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.
LESLIE MANN Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
HORACE MANN Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions o...
HORACE MANN For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to......
GABRIEL MANN Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamon...
HORACE MANN