Men Quotes
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Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?
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No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
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I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
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Such antics do not amount to a man.
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The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
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Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
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Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
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I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of Horace and Sappho. I always joke about this to my students, who can't quite wrap their mind around the fact that you can have a Ph.D in classics, but not do that full time. I never wanted to write anything with footnotes for the rest of my life. I always think of what I do as the kind of conversation you'd have with somebody, like a good friend, when you've gone and seen a movie together, and you come home and you start talking about it.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.
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I don't believe in ghosts, or fairies, or crystals, or unicorns, or a man that can walk on water, or any of that non sense, I personally rely on logic, and have for the better part of my life.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
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I was thrilled and amazed when I found out we won the Nobel Prize. The dedicated and talented women and men of the COBE team collaborated to produce the science results being recognized. This is truly such a rare and special honor.
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Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.
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But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
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Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
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Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
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The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.
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There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.
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If a Cynic is an object of pity, he seems a mere beggar; all turn away, all are offended at him. Nor should be be slovenly of look, so as not to scare men from him in this way either; on the contrary, his very roughness should be clean and attractive. (118).
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes; that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.
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To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.
