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  • Robert Frost A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Carly Craig A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
    Carly Craig
    American actress (1980 - )
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  • Billy Ray Cyrus A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
    Billy Ray Cyrus
    American singer-songwriter and actor (1961 - )
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  • Beryl Markham A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Helen Rowland A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ''personal characteristics.''
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Norman Douglas A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Mark Twain A man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Abraham Polonsky A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Carlos Castaneda A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
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  • W. H. Auden A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Charles Dickens A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Demosthenes A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Samuel Johnson A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Paul Valery A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • George Santayana A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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