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Elihu Root

"Men do not fail; they give up trying."

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Akshay Vasu

"Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation."

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Akshay Vasu

"He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods."

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Akshay Vasu

"Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood."

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Akshay Vasu

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."

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Akshay Vasu

"Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair."

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Akshay Vasu

"I've always liked men better than women."

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Akshay Vasu

"If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks."

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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."

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Akshay Vasu

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."

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Akshay Vasu

"All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men."

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Elihu Root
"Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice."

People

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Elihu Root
"Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot."

Men

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Elihu Root
"Men do not fail; they give up trying."

Men

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Elihu Root
"The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion."

Civilization

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Elihu Root
"It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war."

War

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Elihu Root
"The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective."

Men

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Elihu Root
"Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly."

Life

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Elihu Root
"The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection."

Power

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Elihu Root
"The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything."

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Elihu Root
"The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate."

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