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“Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.”
— Plato
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“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
— William Shakespeare
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“Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”
— Plato
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“The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Study men, not historians.”
— Harry S. Truman
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“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”
— Leo Tolstoy
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“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'”
— John F. Kennedy
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
— Plato
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“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
— Ayn Rand
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“There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.”
— Harry S. Truman
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“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
— Elbert Hubbard
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“I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.”
— Confucius
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“The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.”
— Leo Tolstoy
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“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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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“Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.”
— Thomas Carlyle
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“Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.”
— Dave Barry
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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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“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”
— Sigmund Freud
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“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”
— George Orwell
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