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Man Quotes
"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
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"Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests."
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
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"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
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"But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves."
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"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
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"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
Man,
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"A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing."
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"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
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"It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men."
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"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another."
Man,
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"Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world."
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"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."
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"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
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"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can."
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"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward."
Man,
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"Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse."
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"When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation."
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"O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out."
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"Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit."
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"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood."
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"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."
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