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"A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert."
Denis Kearney
"A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert."
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"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
Aleister Crowley
"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
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"Don't jump on a man unless he is down."
Finley Peter Dunne
"Don't jump on a man unless he is down."
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"I am certainly not a mainstream religious man."
David Ogden Stiers
"I am certainly not a mainstream religious man."
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"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."
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"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families."
Margaret Thatcher
"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families."
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"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."
Sydney J. Harris
"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."
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"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
Isaac Newton
"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
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"When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch."
Bette Davis
"When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch."
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"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."
Stanley Kubrick
"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."
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"Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen."
Esther Williams
"Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen."
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"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them."
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them."
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"No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable."
Letitia Landon
"No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable."
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"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking."
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"A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent."
Jerome Lawrence
"A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent."
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"I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better."
William Wycherley
"I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better."
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"If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself."
Michel de Montaigne
"If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself."
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"I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them."
Robbie Fowler
"I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them."
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"From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots."
Mikhail Bakunin
"From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots."
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"Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man."
Konrad Lorenz
"Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man."
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"In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face."
Diogenes of Sinope
"In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face."
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"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."
Susan B. Anthony
"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."
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"For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages."
Francis Bacon
"For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages."
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"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."
Laurence J. Peter
"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."
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"Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them."
Sargent Shriver
"Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them."
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"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
Baruch Spinoza
"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
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"There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune."
J. Paul Getty
"There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune."
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"Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does."
Jonathan Carroll
"Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does."
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"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot."
Jessica Hagedorn
"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot."
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"Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively."
Laurence J. Peter
"Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively."
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"I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back."
Zsa Zsa Gabor
"I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back."
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"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men."
Emile Zola
"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men."
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"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."
Orison Swett Marden
"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."
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"I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog."
Davy Crockett
"I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog."
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"He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement."
Shimon Peres
"He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement."
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"There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men."
Lord Acton
"There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men."
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"I am a man for whom the outside world exists."
Theophile Gautier
"I am a man for whom the outside world exists."
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"Time takes away the grief of men."
Desiderius Erasmus
"Time takes away the grief of men."
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"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."
Virgil
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."
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"Soft men tend to be born from soft countries."
Herodotus
"Soft men tend to be born from soft countries."
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"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."
David Hilbert
"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."
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"It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope."
Arthur Baer
"It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope."
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"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."
Baltasar Gracian
"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."
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"Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps."
Vladimir Lenin
"Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps."
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"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
John Ruskin
"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
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"It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do."
Anthony Trollope
"It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do."
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"Every man loves what he is good at."
Thomas Shadwell
"Every man loves what he is good at."
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"If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them."
Sue Grafton
"If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them."
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"A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men."
Ralph W. Sockman
"A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men."
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"In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer."
John Amery
"In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer."
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