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Man Quotes


"The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be."
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"I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man."


"Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious."


"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."


"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."


"For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done."


"I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it."


"A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough."


"Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?"


"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."


"Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away."


"A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat."



"Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections."



"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
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"Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away."


"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."


"In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women."


"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."
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"Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary."


"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."


"To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion."


"I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had."


"There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught."


"Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States."


"He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing."


"After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced."


"We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it."



"When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man."
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