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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘men’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.” -Tim Pawlenty
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“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.” -Clarence Darrow
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“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.” -A. N. Wilson
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“My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.” -Dolly Parton
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“All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.” -John Gray
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“I like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.” -Whitney Houston
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“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.” -Warren Farrell
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“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.” -George Orwell
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“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.” -Sigmund Freud
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“I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.” -Hillary Clinton
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“Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.” -Robin Hayes
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“These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.” -Christopher Columbus
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“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.” -Mario Puzo
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“If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.” -David Livingstone
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“The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn’t have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you…
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“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.” -Abigail Adams
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“It’s absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we’ve got rockets, we’ve got saran wrap – fix it!” -Lewis Black
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“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“I’ve only slept with men I’ve been married to. How many women can make that claim?” -Elizabeth Taylor
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“Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.” -Wendy Cope
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“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.” -Aldo Leopold
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“What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.” -Abbe Pierre
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“God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.” -Ramakrishna
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“Most of us women like men, you know it’s just that we find them a constant disappointment.” -Clare Short
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“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” -Le Corbusier
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“It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.” -Marguerite Duras
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“The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world – not his own light, but that of Christ.” -Pope Benedict XVI
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“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.” -E. W. Howe
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“I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I’m also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that…
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“Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.” -Richard Bach
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“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?” -Jim Bouton
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“The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.” -Junius
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“Dreaming men are haunted men.” -Stephen Vincent Benet
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“Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.” -Carroll O’Connor
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“I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said ‘Are you going to help?’ I said ‘No, six should be enough.’” -Les Dawson
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“Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.” -Jose Marti
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“Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.” -Rodney Dangerfield
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“Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“But men are so full of greed today, they’ll sell anything for a little piece of money.” -Little Richard
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“The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.” -Billy Graham
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“Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.” -Franz Liszt
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“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.” -Richard Wright
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“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.” -James Allen
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“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.” -Avicenna
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“Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.” -Rene Descartes
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“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.” -Norman Cousins
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“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” -Robert Schumann
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“Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.” -David Ogilvy
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“I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.” -Marlene Dietrich
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“Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.” -James A. Baldwin
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“Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.” -Gary Oldman
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“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars – when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.” -Thomas Aquinas
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“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” -Robert E. Howard
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“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” -Noah Webster
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“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.” -Francois Fenelon
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“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.” -W. E. B. Du Bois
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“I swear by that old expression, ‘One monkey don’t stop no show!’ The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.” -Angie Stone
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“Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.” -Augustus Y. Napier
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“If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they’re killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We’d not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.” -Spike Lee
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“Daddy was real gentle with kids. That’s why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.” -Loretta Lynn
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“When men attempt bold gestures, generally it’s considered romantic. When women do it, it’s often considered desperate or psycho.” -Sarah Jessica Parker
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“Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.” -Miyamoto Musashi
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“It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.” -William James
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“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.” -Aldous Huxley
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“When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.” -Cesar Chavez
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“There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.” -Albert Ellis
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“Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.” -Albert Pike
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“If it’s true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.” -Doris Day
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“I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.” -Yousuf Karsh
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“Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort.” -Henry Rollins
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“Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.” -Samuel Gompers
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“More men die of jealousy than of cancer.” -Joseph P. Kennedy
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“A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.” -Charles Spurgeon
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“If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.” -Sun Tzu
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“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” -Pope John XXIII
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“I’m a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.” -Joel Rosenberg
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“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.” -Samuel Johnson
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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” -Herman Melville
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“Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.” -Blu Cantrell
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“A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.” -Francoise Sagan
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“All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.” -W. C. Fields
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“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?” -Virginia Woolf
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“You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.” -Ho Chi Minh
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“I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.” -Brendan Behan
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“To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that.” -Carlos Castaneda
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“Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” -John Stuart Mill
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“When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.” -Alexander Hamilton
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“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.” -Brooke Foss Westcott
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“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.” -Simon Wiesenthal
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“I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don’t believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn’t want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.” -Malcom X
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“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.” -Channing Pollock
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“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more – I could be martyred for my religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that.” -John Keats
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“Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.” -Gary Lineker
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“To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!” -H. L. Mencken
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“You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.” -Clint Eastwood
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“Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.” -Jerry Seinfeld
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“Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.” -Warren Buffett
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“Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.” -Ali ibn Abi Talib
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“When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, ‘Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?’” -Mitt Romney
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“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.” -William Penn
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“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” -Alice Walker
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“Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.” -Marianne Williamson
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“Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.” -Ayrton Senna
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“I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.” -Ron Paul
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“Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls… because they can.” -Kim Cattrall
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“One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.” -David Hume
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“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.” -Bill Maher
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“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.” -John Maynard Keynes
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“What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.” -Vanessa Marcil
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“People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.” -Muhammad Iqbal
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“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.” -Natalie Portman
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“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.” -Epicurus
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“To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Men exist for the sake of one another.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.” -Marcus Garvey
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“Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” -Garrison Keillor
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“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.” -Dale Carnegie
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“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” -George McGovern
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“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.” -Katharine Hepburn
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“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.” -Voltaire
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“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” -Thomas Paine
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“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.” -Thomas J. Watson
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“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.” -Napoleon Hill
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“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.” -Ayn Rand
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“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” -Orison Swett Marden
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“We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.” -Chanakya
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“What’s with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?” -Erma Bombeck
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“I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.” -Martin Luther
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“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.” -Thomas Sowell
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“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.” -Plato
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“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.” -Henry Ford
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“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.” -Charles V
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“Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.” -Henry Norris Russell
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“Personally, I like two types of men – domestic and foreign.” -Mae West
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“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.” -Charles de Gaulle
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“I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.” -Coco Chanel
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“America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.” -Allen Boyd
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“Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.” -Joseph Auslander
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“I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.” -Will Smith
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“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.” -Erich Fromm
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“I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.” -Johnny Depp
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“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.” -George S. Patton
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“Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.” -Hunter S. Thompson
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“I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.” -Bill Cosby
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“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.” -Nelson Mandela
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“Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.” -William Arthur Ward
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“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.” -Thomas Merton
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“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.” -Albert Camus
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“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.” -Tiger Woods
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“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.” -Paulo Coelho
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“When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.” -Mike Tyson
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“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” -Timothy Leary
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“The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.” -Eric Hoffer
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“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.” -George Washington
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“Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.” -Lucinda Franks
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“A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men – and people in general.” -Lorraine Hansberry
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