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William Golding

"What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others."

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"What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others."

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

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"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

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"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

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"What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?"

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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

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"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

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"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."

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"I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed."

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"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."

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