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Man Quotes
"A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness."
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"Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation."
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"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."
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"There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs."
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"Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"
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"If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed."
Man,
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"Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg."
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"The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late."
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"The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs."
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"I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it."
Man,
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men."
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"A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself."
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"There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men."
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"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
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"Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual."
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"Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned."
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"This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate."
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"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."
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"What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way."
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"For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King."
Man,
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"There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail."
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"All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them."
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"No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation."
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"The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate."
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