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"One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can."
Josh Billings
"One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can."
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"Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?"
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?"
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"Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts."
Aeschylus
"Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts."
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"The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street."
Charles Lamb
"The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street."
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"It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny."
James F. Cooper
"It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny."
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"I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man."
Stephen Sondheim
"I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man."
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"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?"
Joseph Howe
"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?"
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"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
Roland Barthes
"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."
George Weinberg
"Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect."
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"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?"
Peter Jennings
"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?"
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"Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was."
Mickey Mantle
"Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was."
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"Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."
Samuel Butler
"Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."
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"We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place."
Alice Cooper
"We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place."
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"My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did."
Jack Adams
"My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did."
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"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."
John Locke
"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."
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"I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing."
Gloria Steinem
"I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing."
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"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."
Sigmund Freud
"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."
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"I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City."
Warren Farrell
"I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City."
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"The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes."
Herodotus
"The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes."
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"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats."
Josephus Daniels
"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
John Buford
"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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"What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others."
William Golding
"What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others."
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"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."
Oliver Goldsmith
"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."
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"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."
Victoria Woodhull
"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."
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"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."
Jim Bishop
"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."
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"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."
John Perkins
"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."
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"The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you."
James Joyce
"The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you."
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"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."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"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."
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"A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe."
Emily Greene Balch
"A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe."
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"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."
Thomas Szasz
"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."
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"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples."
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"What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place."
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"For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover."
Edwin A. Robinson
"For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover."
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"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."
Havelock Ellis
"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."
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"If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness."
David Gest
"If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness."
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"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."
Clayton Christensen
"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."
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"A self-made man may prefer a self-made name."
Learned Hand
"A self-made man may prefer a self-made name."
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"Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper."
Hannah More
"Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper."
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"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand."
Bruce Barton
"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand."
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"Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world."
Ted Turner
"Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world."
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"The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was."
Helen Dunmore
"The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was."
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"Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak."
Madame de Stael
"Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak."
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"Men often act knowingly against their interest."
David Hume
"Men often act knowingly against their interest."
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"I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much."
Ronnie Spector
"I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much."
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"One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship."
Milton Friedman
"One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship."
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"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."
Ben Kingsley
"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."
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"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."
George Steiner
"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."
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"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
Robert Kennedy
"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
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"I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters."
Susan B. Anthony
"I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters."
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"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."
Ansel Adams
"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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