"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."

Man, Men, Government, Congress, Law

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"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."

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

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"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

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"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise."

Praise

"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress."

Care

"The keener the want the lustier the growth."

Growth

"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."

Liberty

"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."

People

"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."

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"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."

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

"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

"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?"

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

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

"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."

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

"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?"

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

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

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"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise."

"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress."

"The keener the want the lustier the growth."

"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."

"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."

"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."

"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."

"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."

"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."

"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."