Men Quotes
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Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
Plutarch
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I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
Chief Joseph
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On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.
Umar
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It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.
John C. Calhoun
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And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.
John Perkins
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I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.
Dorothy Stratten
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Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.
Pablo Casals
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
Alan Paton
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However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.
William Shakespeare
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A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.
William Graham Sumner
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin Pierce Adams
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Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into a grim and joyless adjunct to the policing of bedrooms and marital intercourse - men and women can no longer see themselves as beloved of God, only as impure and reprehensible.
Uta Ranke-Heinemann
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Women play about twenty-five percent as good as men, so they should get about twenty-five percent of the money men get.
Bobby Riggs
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I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.
Caitriona Balfe
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I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.
Jim Lehrer
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I prefer men to cauliflowers
Virginia Woolf
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The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.
Jean Giraudoux
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It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
Sarah Jessica Parker
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Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.
Kirby Smart
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante Alighieri
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The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.
John Tillotson
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I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.
Glenn Hughes Brazen Abbot
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I can make men follow me to hell.
Philip Kearny
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To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
Fabius Maximus