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"Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history."
History
"An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible."
God
"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?"
People
"Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone."
Man
"There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life."
Life
"When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?"
Being
"Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't."
Animals
"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."
History
"But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself."
Fear
"Explorers have to be ready to die lost."
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