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Man Quotes
"My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe."
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"In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another."
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"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand."
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"There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well."
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"Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?"
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"I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!"
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"For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift."
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"When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'"
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"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
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"We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse."
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"In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!"
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"A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so."
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"Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men."
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"The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them."
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"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do."
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"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better."
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"While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made."
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"What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man."
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"Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well."
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"When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled."
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"On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men."
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"Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform; and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans."
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"As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything."
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"Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell."
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"It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich."
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"Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk."
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"Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men."
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