Carl L. Becker (Carl Lotus Becker) Quotes
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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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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
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We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, but I don't really talk about things.
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.
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I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my handsand wrote my will across the sky in stars To gain you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house, that your eyes might be shining for meWhen I came.
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Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes.
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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
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Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.
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I wouldn't say personally that I have problems communicating with men - though I'm not sure what the men would say.
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I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.
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I think women like to conquer hearts. Men like to conquer countries.
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For some reason, every time I get a little bit under the weather, I've got zero patience.
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Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.
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Once you're not No. 1, it doesn't matter where you are.
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If you get into the main draw of a Grand Slam, then you've made your mark and proved that's where you belong.
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Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.
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The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
