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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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"No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled."
Thomas Kempis
"No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled."
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"Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them."
Charles Baudelaire
"Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them."
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"Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge."
Max Frisch
"Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge."
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"Every man has a sane spot somewhere."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Every man has a sane spot somewhere."
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"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning."
Elvis Presley
"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning."
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"I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper."
E. M. Forster
"I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper."
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"Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself."
Whittaker Chambers
"Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself."
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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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"In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach."
Dean Inge
"In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach."
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"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."
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"Walking is man's best medicine."
Hippocrates
"Walking is man's best medicine."
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"The more I see of men the more I like dogs."
Madame de Stael
"The more I see of men the more I like dogs."
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"You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad."
Adlai E. Stevenson
"You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad."
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"Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays."
Friedrich Schiller
"Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays."
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"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
Roald Dahl
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
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"We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve."
Jack Reed
"We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve."
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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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"A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half."
Jeff Cooper
"A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half."
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"There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage."
William Jennings Bryan
"There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage."
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"No man is happy but by comparison."
Thomas Shadwell
"No man is happy but by comparison."
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"I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star."
Richard Pryor
"I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star."
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"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid."
Jean Anouilh
"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid."
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"When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals."
Clara Zetkin
"When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals."
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"Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well."
Ice T
"Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well."
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"A man's homeland is wherever he prospers."
Aristophanes
"A man's homeland is wherever he prospers."
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"If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own."
Herodotus
"If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own."
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"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."
Carl Sandburg
"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."
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"I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!"
Robbie Williams
"I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!"
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"Man is a messenger who forgot the message."
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Man is a messenger who forgot the message."
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"It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation."
Frederick Robertson
"It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation."
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"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man."
Diogenes
"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man."
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"It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree."
James Weldon Johnson
"It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree."
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"It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man."
David Harris
"It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man."
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"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."
Jimmy Carter
"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."
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"Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky."
Solon
"Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky."
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"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."
Isaiah Berlin
"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."
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"Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old."
Michael Caine
"Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old."
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"I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man."
Charlton Heston
"I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man."
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"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
Oscar Wilde
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
Clarence Darrow
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
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"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."
Robert Emmet
"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."
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"I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove."
Mark Rylance
"I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove."
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"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman."
Guillaume Apollinaire
"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman."
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"Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever."
Herodotus
"Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever."
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"More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso."
Sean Connery
"More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso."
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"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
Honore de Balzac
"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
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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."
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"Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men."
E. B. White
"Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men."
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"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."
Jean Cocteau
"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."
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