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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Man, Pain

"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Man, Men, Poison

"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

bell hooks, American Critic

Man, Men, Columbus

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Man, Woman

"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

Man, Men

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Man, Old, Today

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Man, Men, Want

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Man, Men, Women, Beginning

"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Man, Men, Will

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Poor, Statesman

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"Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out."

History

"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

Anger

"One half who graduate from college never read another book."

College

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

God

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

Education

"I have two doctors, my left leg and my right."

Health

"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization."

Life

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

Responsibility

"A little man often cast a long shadow."

Man