"Dawn: When men of reason go to bed."

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

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"Produce great men, the rest follows."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

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"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise."

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"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist

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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

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"Women and foxes being weak are distinguished by superior tact."

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"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

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"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

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"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."

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"Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."

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"Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

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"Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay."

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"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."

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"Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."

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