"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."

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"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."

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"I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme."

Dwight Yoakam, American Musician

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"You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?"

Zebulon Pike, American Soldier

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"Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped."

James J. Corbett, American Athlete

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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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Karl Jaspers, German Psychologist

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"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."

J. P. Morgan, American Businessman

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"A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat."

Allen West, American Politician

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"Each man in his way is a treasure."

Robert Falcon Scott, British Explorer

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"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."

Raymond Chandler, American Writer

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"

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"What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."

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"I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme."

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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

"Only as an individual can man become a philosopher."

"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."

"A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat."

"Each man in his way is a treasure."

"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"

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"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."

"What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."

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"How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!"

"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice."

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