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Man Quotes



"Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?"


"The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street."


"Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?"



"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
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"Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect."


"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"


"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits."



"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."


"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats."



"Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week."


"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been."


"Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful."


"There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas."



"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."


"Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all."


"If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness."


"Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served."


"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand."



"Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world."


"Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak."


"Men often act knowingly against their interest."


"One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship."


"When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him."


"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."



"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."


"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."
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