James Smithson Quotes
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
Gary Lineker
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
H. Rap Brown
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Ovid
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
Rand Paul
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
T. J. Miller
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
Harmon Killebrew
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
Salmon P. Chase
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
Salman Khurshid
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
Barry Humphries
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I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
Adam Ferrara
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Today, violence against women is rightly abhorred. But we call violence against men entertainment. Think of football, boxing, wrestling... All are games used to sugarcoat violence against men, originally in need of sugarcoating so our team -or our society -could bribe its best protectors to sacrifice themselves.
Warren Farrell
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It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future.
Douglas Alexander
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.
James Smithson