Men Quotes
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The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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One of the great reasons, I am sure, why David O. McKay has lived to such a good, ripe, and vigorous old age has been the fact that as a young man he developed habits of retiring to bed early, arising early, generally before sun up, when his mind was clear and his body vigorous, to do the day's work.
Ernest L. Wilkinson
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My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
Ahmet Ertegun
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Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.
Cees Nooteboom
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt
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We are rough men and used to rough ways.
Bob Younger
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
Thomas Carlyle
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As Donald Trump and his cabinet now demonstrate, the skills encouraged in men by their biologies and the tools that boys master in the playground have not equipped them to deal with the unprecedented global crisis we are now facing.
Anohni
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The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.
Saul Bellow
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Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
Seneca the Younger
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Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.
Aleksey Tolstoy
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Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
Henry Knox
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Whatever the final outcome in Iraq, our men and women in uniform should stand tall with pride for a job well done. It was our political leaders - of both parties and both presidencies - who failed us.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
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The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.
William Graham Sumner
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Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
William Shakespeare
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He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.
Madeleine de Souvre
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I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
David Bowie
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We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?
Anthony Langston
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When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?
William Wordsworth
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A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.
Nathan McCall
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Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.
Helen Keller
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All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Each man's destiny is hung like a medallion around his neck.
Charles le Gai Eaton