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"Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion."
Lucretius
"Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion."
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"It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation."
James Hillman
"It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation."
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"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
Booker T. Washington
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
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"If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own."
Herodotus
"If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own."
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"But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men."
Kathy Acker
"But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men."
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"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."
Carter G. Woodson
"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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"In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power."
A. J. P. Taylor
"In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power."
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"Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile."
Albert Schweitzer
"Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile."
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"Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive."
Wilbur Wright
"Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive."
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"I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me."
Carter G. Woodson
"I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me."
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"The greatest men, you can quote for everything."
John Acton
"The greatest men, you can quote for everything."
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"The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men."
James Harrington
"The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men."
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"No man is good enough to be another's master."
William Morris
"No man is good enough to be another's master."
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"When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me."
Smokey Robinson
"When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me."
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"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."
Max Eastman
"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."
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"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."
Baruch Spinoza
"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."
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"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."
Henry B. Adams
"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."
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"Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
Josh Billings
"Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
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"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."
E. B. White
"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."
Carl Jung
"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
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"You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore."
Helen Reddy
"You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore."
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"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
Baruch Spinoza
"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
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"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."
Howard Staunton
"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."
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"Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows."
Arthur H. Sulzberger
"Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows."
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"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."
Mary Harris Jones
"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."
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"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."
Mark Shields
"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."
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"Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts."
Harriet Martineau
"Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts."
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"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."
George Woodcock
"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."
Sid Waddell
"Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter."
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"I'm a very wealthy man."
Elton John
"I'm a very wealthy man."
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"However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police."
Quentin Crisp
"However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police."
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"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."
Charles Caleb Colton
"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."
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"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."
Simon Newcomb
"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."
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"Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter."
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"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."
Ludwig von Mises
"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."
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"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."
Richard Whately
"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."
Harold MacMillan
"No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs."
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"The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world."
Wilford O. Cross
"The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world."
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"A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men."
Amy Lowell
"A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men."
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"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."
John Millington Synge
"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."
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"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."
Woodrow Wilson
"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."
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"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."
Norman Mailer
"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."
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"No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled."
Thomas Kempis
"No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled."
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"A peaceful man does more good than a learned one."
Pope John XXIII
"A peaceful man does more good than a learned one."
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."
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"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little."
Diogenes
"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little."
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"It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured."
Jeremy Irons
"It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured."
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"Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other."
Charles Lamb
"Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other."
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"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."
Oliver Goldsmith
"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."
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"We are all the President's men."
Henry A. Kissinger
"We are all the President's men."
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