Men Quotes
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Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.
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I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
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Through adopting radical extremism, some young men who previously felt humiliated and emasculated by their peers can now feel powerful and intimidating - and gain status, attention from young women, and the comradeship and solidarity of other young men like themselves.
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Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.
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Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.
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Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
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A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
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It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
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The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?
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The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Engineers and certified pilots may be expensive but talented young men with a teenager's grasp of risk are surprisingly affordable.
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If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
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The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
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For many young men, joining in a radical movement is a way of feeling powerful, which is particularly intoxicating for men who feel their masculinity has been called into question, whether through victimisation or a failure to achieve the status that they feel they are entitled to.
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You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
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The totem pole, for example, is a remnant from an era where there was much greater communication between man and the animals - when, in fact, men went to the animals to learn, and from them first acquired knowledge of herbs and corrective medicinal behavior.
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All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.
