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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
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"Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life."

"You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well."

"So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know."

"90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?"

"It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people."

"It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on."

"There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks."
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