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William Makepeace Thackeray

"I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses."

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

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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

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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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"I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed."

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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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"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you."
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"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
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"Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed."
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