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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 | |
| 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 | |
| If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it | | Jane Austen | |
| If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter | | Joseph Addison | |
| If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs. | | Aesop | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place | | Helen Rowland | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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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