"This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind."

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"This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind."

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

Margot Asquith, English Author

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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."

Katherine Anne Porter, American Journalist

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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Henry Miller, American Author

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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

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"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk."

Anita Loos, American Writer

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."

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"Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward."

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