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The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
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The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
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The office should seek the man, not man the office.
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The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
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The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
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The only one who can change the heart of man is the Lord. And that will make us want to make things fair for other people.
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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
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The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
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