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Man Quotes


"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."


"The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught."


"I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man."



"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."


"Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens."


"It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation."


"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles."


"There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men."


"You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service."


"To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection."


"You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one."


"There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove."


"A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man."


"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."


"Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests."


"It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree."


"At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence."


"All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man."


"We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE."


"Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere."


"No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him."


"A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing."



"We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes."
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