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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."
War

"The existentialist says at once that man is anguish."
Man

"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."
God

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."
Literature

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
Fact

"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."
Life

"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."
People

"To eat is to appropriate by destruction."
Destruction

"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."
Politics

"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."
Life
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