Chester W. Nimitz Quotes
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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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.
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I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Oh! not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted, Who died in freedom's cause, And not for some living hero To whom all bend the knee, My muse would raise her song of praise - But for the man to be.
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I think caring more about flags than people is an issue. I'd like to see that change.
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called 'conservative,' as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.
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Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.
