"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."

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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war."

Pierre Curie, French Scientist

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"Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts."

Edmund Leach, British Scientist

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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The only sin is mediocrity."

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"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."

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"First we have to believe, and then we believe."

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"Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body."

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"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God."

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"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being."

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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."

"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."

"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."

"Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war."

"Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts."

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."

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"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."

"The only sin is mediocrity."

"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."

"First we have to believe, and then we believe."

"Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body."

"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God."

"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being."