Men Quotes
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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
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Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.
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Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
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This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this.
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Medical men have searched the world for remedies, desiring an antidote. Chiropractors find the cause in the person ailing.
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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
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Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
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I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.
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For a man it's like if something goes on on-stage you'll have a drink at the bar and talk about it. With a female artist it's a big deal, you have a meeting and she's mad at you for the next couple of shows!
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Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.
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I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.
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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
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For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.
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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.
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Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
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Men should have rough hands and be strong.
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Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
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All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
