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"He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man."
Mencius
"He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man."
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"The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things."
Dean Inge
"The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things."
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"Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind."
Malcolm De Chazal
"Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind."
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"Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are."
Louisa May Alcott
"Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are."
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"For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water."
Chief Joseph
"For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water."
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"Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically."
Jane Bryant Quinn
"Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically."
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"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."
William Blake
"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."
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"Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped."
James J. Corbett
"Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped."
Man,
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"Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power."
Gloria Steinem
"Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power."
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"Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them."
Gay Talese
"Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them."
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"Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all."
Bernard Levin
"Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all."
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"The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man."
Stendhal
"The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man."
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"A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man."
Gustave Flaubert
"A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man."
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"The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen."
Charles Lamb
"The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen."
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"I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not."
Harold Brodkey
"I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not."
Man,
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"When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours."
Daley Thompson
"When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours."
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"I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis."
Hugh Shelton
"I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis."
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"Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism."
Camille Paglia
"Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism."
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"The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country."
Norm Dicks
"The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country."
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"Man as a pure animal does not exist."
Francis Parker Yockey
"Man as a pure animal does not exist."
Man,
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"Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers."
Kenneth Koch
"Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers."
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"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me."
Arthur Wellesley
"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me."
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"Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite."
Sri Aurobindo
"Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite."
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"I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on."
Marie Windsor
"I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on."
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"For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men."
Steve Israel
"For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men."
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"The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of."
Fred Hoyle
"The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of."
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"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."
William Cobbett
"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."
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"The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat."
Lord Beaverbrook
"The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat."
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"Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women."
Nancy Astor
"Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women."
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"The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is."
Ivor Novello
"The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is."
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"We are the women men warned us about."
Robin Morgan
"We are the women men warned us about."
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"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."
Anita Brookner
"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."
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"To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes."
John Locke
"To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes."
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"A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men."
Julie Burchill
"A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men."
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"The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval."
Franz Grillparzer
"The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval."
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"I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break."
Herodotus
"I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break."
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"It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all."
Dixie Carter
"It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all."
Man,
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"Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives."
Walter Lippmann
"Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives."
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"It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men."
Robert Dale Owen
"It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men."
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"I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere."
Roy Acuff
"I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere."
Man,
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"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."
Maria Montessori
"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."
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"You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages."
Robert Owen
"You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages."
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"Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine."
Benjamin F. Wade
"Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine."
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"The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind."
Mary Ritter Beard
"The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind."
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"In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man."
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"Man makes holy what he believes."
Ernest Renan
"Man makes holy what he believes."
Man,
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"Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity."
Alcaeus
"Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity."
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"A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not."
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
"A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not."
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"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven."
Thomas Fuller
"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven."
Man,
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"Men who never get carried away should be."
Malcolm Forbes
"Men who never get carried away should be."
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