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"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."
Laurence J. Peter
"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."
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"If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it."
Andre Maurois
"If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it."
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"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."
William Blake
"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."
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"Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."
Morris West
"Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."
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"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."
Henry Ellis
"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."
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"The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion."
Ernie Pyle
"The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion."
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"In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth."
Albert Bushnell Hart
"In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth."
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"Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings."
Kenny Hickey
"Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings."
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"No man may make another free."
Zora Neale Hurston
"No man may make another free."
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"Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it."
James Hillman
"Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it."
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"Men and women, women and men. It will never work."
Erica Jong
"Men and women, women and men. It will never work."
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"I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him."
Sugar Ray Leonard
"I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him."
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"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."
David Hume
"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."
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"We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes."
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"A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself."
Jose Marti
"A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself."
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"Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty."
Sophocles
"Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty."
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"We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work."
John F. Kennedy
"We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work."
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"I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people."
Chief Joseph
"I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people."
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"Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing."
Herodotus
"Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing."
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"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."
Jonathan Swift
"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."
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"One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up."
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"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
Rebecca West
"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
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"Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it."
Edward F. Halifax
"Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it."
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"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."
Sophocles
"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."
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"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
Walter Bagehot
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
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"I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so."
Sydney Smith
"I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so."
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"It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted."
Titus Livius
"It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted."
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"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits."
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"Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome."
Thomas Hobbes
"Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome."
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"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money."
Robert Jackson
"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money."
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"I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility."
Anthony Michael Hall
"I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility."
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"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it."
Andrew Carnegie
"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it."
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"The ocean moans over dead men's bones."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"The ocean moans over dead men's bones."
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"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."
E. B. White
"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."
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"In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy."
William Falconer
"In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy."
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"I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!"
Kirstie Alley
"I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!"
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"Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."
Mary Wollstonecraft
"Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."
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"As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth."
Boris Pasternak
"As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth."
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"Never slap a man who chews tobacco."
Willard Scott
"Never slap a man who chews tobacco."
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"When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer."
Julia Margaret Cameron
"When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer."
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"Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves."
Arrian
"Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves."
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"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."
Black Elk
"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."
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"We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve."
Jack Reed
"We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve."
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"More men die of jealousy than of cancer."
Joseph P. Kennedy
"More men die of jealousy than of cancer."
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"Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is."
Thomas Kempis
"Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is."
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"To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach."
Demosthenes
"To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach."
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"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center."
Stephen Gardiner
"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center."
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"It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it."
Gertrude Jekyll
"It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it."
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"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."
Denis Diderot
"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."
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"What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong."
William Lamb Melbourne
"What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong."
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