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Man Quotes


"It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation."


"But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men."


"If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own."
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"Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive."


"The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men."



"When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me."


"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."


"It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members."
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"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
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"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."


"Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not."


"What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university."


"Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally."
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"Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter."


"However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police."



"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck."


"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."



"The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it."
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"No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs."


"It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea."


"Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling."


"It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured."


"Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other."
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