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"Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use."
Gamaliel Bailey
"Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use."
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"Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations."
Aulus Persius Flaccus
"Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations."
Man,
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"Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs."
Ana Castillo
"Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs."
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"I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity."
James Ellroy
"I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity."
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"First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do."
Vito Fossella
"First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do."
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"I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions."
Edith Rogers
"I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions."
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"The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world."
Adam Sedgwick
"The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world."
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"Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure."
Robert South
"Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure."
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"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
Seneca
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
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"From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind."
Ayn Rand
"From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind."
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"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
James Buchan
"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
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"Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at."
Josh Billings
"Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at."
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"And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization."
Chauncey Wright
"And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization."
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"I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way."
Robert Johnson
"I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way."
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"An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men."
Vincent Van Gogh
"An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men."
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"I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution."
Curt Flood
"I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution."
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"When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea."
Joss Whedon
"When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea."
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"There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together."
Simone Schwarz-Bart
"There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together."
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"Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong."
Lord Edward Cecil
"Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong."
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"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."
Henry David Thoreau
"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."
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"Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?"
Ezer Weizman
"Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?"
Man,
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"Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate."
Barbara de Angelis
"Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate."
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"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
Alice Walker
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
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"I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women."
Robert Menzies
"I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women."
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"Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves."
Kate Fox
"Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves."
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"Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones."
Pericles
"Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones."
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"Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish."
Theodor Reik
"Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish."
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"A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."
Charles M. Schwab
"A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."
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"I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road."
Benjamin F. Wade
"I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road."
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"I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work."
Don Nickles
"I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work."
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"Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are."
Barbara de Angelis
"Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are."
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"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
Susan Sontag
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
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"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."
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"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."
Lord Byron
"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."
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"I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men."
Elizabeth Arden
"I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men."
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"The man who has done his best has done everything."
Charles M. Schwab
"The man who has done his best has done everything."
Man,
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"There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart."
Alfred Einstein
"There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart."
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"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."
Man,
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"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding."
George Savile
"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding."
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"Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America."
Theodore White
"Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America."
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"I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men."
James W. Fulbright
"I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men."
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"A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it."
Lila Acheson Wallace
"A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it."
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"I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels."
Agnes Macphail
"I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels."
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"Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man."
Arnold Rothstein
"Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man."
Man,
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"Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men."
Herbert Baxter Adams
"Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men."
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"We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain."
Walter Winchell
"We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain."
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"I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?"
Vida Blue
"I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?"
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"Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India."
Lalu Prasad Yadav
"Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India."
Man,
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"You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!"
Giuseppe Zangara
"You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!"
Man,
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"Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons."
Richard Wright
"Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons."
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