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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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“Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.” — Saint Augustine

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“It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.” — Mae West

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“Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.” — Zig Ziglar

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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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“More men die of jealousy than of cancer.” — Joseph P. Kennedy

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“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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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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“Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.” — George Jean Nathan

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“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.” — Mae West

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“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.” — Marcel Proust

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“They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.” — Pythagoras

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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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“False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.” — Charles de Montesquieu

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“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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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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“All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.” — Chief Joseph

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“What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.” — James Cash Penney

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“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.” — Black Elk

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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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“The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.” — Andrew Jackson

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“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.” — Charles Dickens

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