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Man Quotes
"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar."
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"Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens."
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"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."
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"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
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"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."
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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
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"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
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"There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course."
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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all."
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"The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas."
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"The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection."
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"Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields."
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"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?"
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields."
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"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."
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