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"Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time."
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"I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most."
Elvis Presley
"I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most."
Man,
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"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."
Francis Bacon
"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."
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"A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?"
Lauren Bacall
"A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?"
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"Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
Ambrose Bierce
"Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
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"Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man."
Robert Wagner
"Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man."
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"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."
Seneca
"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."
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"The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him."
George Santayana
"The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him."
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"If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know."
Thomas Wolfe
"If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know."
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"Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men."
Sargent Shriver
"Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men."
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"It is in games that many men discover their paradise."
Robert Wilson Lynd
"It is in games that many men discover their paradise."
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"Men are actually the weaker sex."
George Weinberg
"Men are actually the weaker sex."
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"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."
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"In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath."
Conan O'Brien
"In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath."
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"If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet."
Andrew Johnson
"If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet."
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"Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away."
Edward Dahlberg
"Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away."
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"Man has been adjudged a social animal."
Francis Wright
"Man has been adjudged a social animal."
Man,
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"A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far."
Fannie Hurst
"A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far."
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"The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest."
Lyman Abbott
"The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest."
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"Society is the union of men and not the men themselves."
Charles de Secondat
"Society is the union of men and not the men themselves."
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"It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back."
Marianne Moore
"It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back."
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"I know I will never have an affair with a married man again."
Monica Lewinsky
"I know I will never have an affair with a married man again."
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"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."
Plutarch
"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."
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"Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out."
Cyril Connolly
"Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out."
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"Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal."
Harri Holkeri
"Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal."
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"Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world."
Richard Armour
"Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world."
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"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented."
R. Buckminster Fuller
"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented."
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"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."
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"The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers."
Harvey Cushing
"The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers."
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"My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?"
Margaret Smith
"My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?"
Man,
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"I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them."
Ezra Pound
"I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them."
Man,
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"Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy."
Frank Howard Clark
"Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy."
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"All men would be tyrants if they could."
Daniel Defoe
"All men would be tyrants if they could."
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"A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it."
Oscar Levant
"A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it."
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"Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it."
James Cash Penney
"Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it."
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"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
Carl Jung
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
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"A man is only as good as what he loves."
Saul Bellow
"A man is only as good as what he loves."
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"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
Honore de Balzac
"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
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"I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line."
Willie Stargell
"I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line."
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"How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?"
Babe Ruth
"How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?"
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"The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked."
Keith Miller
"The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked."
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"Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything."
Maimonides
"Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything."
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"Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge."
Max Frisch
"Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge."
Man,
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"Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences."
Marcus Garvey
"Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences."
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"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."
Diogenes
"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."
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"When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then."
Placido Domingo
"When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then."
Man,
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"These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."
Christopher Columbus
"These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."
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"Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman."
Larry David
"Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman."
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"It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most."
Marguerite Duras
"It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most."
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"Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide."
Woodrow Wilson
"Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide."
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