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"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."
George Savile
"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."
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"During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service."
Eddie Bernice Johnson
"During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service."
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"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."
Franklin P. Adams
"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."
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"Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy."
William Warburton
"Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy."
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"Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears."
Washington Irving
"Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears."
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"A man is always better than he thinks."
Woody Hayes
"A man is always better than he thinks."
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"I've never been a yes man."
Rogers Hornsby
"I've never been a yes man."
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"A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible."
Claude Chabrol
"A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible."
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"Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them."
George Villiers
"Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them."
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"A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is."
Willard Gaylin
"A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is."
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"Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy."
Edward Dahlberg
"Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy."
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"The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives."
Pericles
"The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives."
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"And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society."
Henry Lawson
"And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society."
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"It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms."
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
"It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms."
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"I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs."
Gerard Depardieu
"I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs."
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"Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men."
Warren Farrell
"Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men."
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"We're born man, woman and sexual beings."
Virginia Johnson
"We're born man, woman and sexual beings."
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"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
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"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men."
Mortimer Adler
"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men."
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"The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well."
Gale Gordon
"The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well."
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"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
John Morley
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
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"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
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"There would be no great men if there were no little ones."
George Herbert
"There would be no great men if there were no little ones."
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"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing."
Simon Wiesenthal
"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing."
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"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted."
William Cobbett
"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted."
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"Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so."
Jacopo Sannazaro
"Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so."
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"You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn't leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start."
Nicholas D. Kristof
"You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn't leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start."
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"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
Oscar Wilde
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
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"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty."
Juvenal
"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty."
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"Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers."
William Petty
"Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers."
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"Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses."
Cesare Lombroso
"Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses."
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"If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured."
Stendhal
"If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured."
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"This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty."
H. L. Hunt
"This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty."
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"It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything."
Joyce Cary
"It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything."
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"When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union."
Sonny Perdue
"When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union."
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"True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure."
Auguste Rodin
"True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure."
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"The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it."
John Burroughs
"The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it."
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"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together."
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"Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies."
Francis Parker Yockey
"Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies."
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"I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president."
Phil McGraw
"I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president."
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"There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues."
George Dennison Prentice
"There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues."
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"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes."
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"The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity."
David Herbert Lawrence
"The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity."
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"A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator."
William Cowper
"A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator."
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"Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes."
Pierre de Coubertin
"Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes."
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"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."
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"Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth."
Andrei A. Gromyko
"Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth."
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"Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving."
John Gray
"Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving."
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"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."
Marya Mannes
"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."
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"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven."
Aulus Persius Flaccus
"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven."
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