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  • Thomas Paine The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Confucius The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Don Shula The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
    Don Shula
    American football coach and player (1930 - )
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  • Confucius The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Henry James The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Carl Sagan The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
    Source: Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Blaise Pascal The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • James Russell Lowell The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Robert Benchley The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Napoleon The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob Wells The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
    Bob Wells
     
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  • Arthur Young The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
    Arthur Young
     
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  • Helen Rowland The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • E. B. White The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it - the speed of his acceptance.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Marguerite Duras The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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