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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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| Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. |
| John Steinbeck |
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| Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half? |
| Jean Giraudoux |
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| Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side |
| Mark Twain |
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| Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts |
| Voltaire |
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| Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think that he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the |
| Mae West |
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| Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all. |
| Henry Ford |
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| Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted |
| Aldous Huxley |
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| Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. |
| Woodrow T. Wilson |
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| Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. |
| Søren Kierkegaard |
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| No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation |
| Douglas MacArthur |
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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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