"Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets."

Man, Men, Women, Commerce, Fashion

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

Margot Asquith, English Author

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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Man, Men, People

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Man, Right

"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

Man, Men, Evil

"My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons."

Randy Castillo, American Musician

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"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?"

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"Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-."

Liberty

"In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations."

Reality

"A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey."

Novel

"When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea."

Health

"It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil."

Morality

"We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it."

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

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

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."

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

"My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons."

"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

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"Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?"

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"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."

"That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law."

"Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is."

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"We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it."