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| If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. |
| Barbara Bush |
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| If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it |
| Jane Austen |
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| If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter |
| Joseph Addison |
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| If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs. |
| Aesop |
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| Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. |
| Seneca |
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| In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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| In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her. |
| Marcel Proust |
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| In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place |
| Helen Rowland |
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| Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man |
| William Shakespeare |
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| It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| It is difficulties that show what men are |
| Epictetus |
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| It is not their love for men but the impotence of their love for men which hinders the Christians of today from burning us |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man |
| James Thurber |
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