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  • Harry S. Truman A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Georges Bernanos A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Winston Churchill A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bertrand Russell A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Robert Byrne A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • C. S. Lewis A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Richard Nixon A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Alfred Nobel A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • W. C. Fields A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • Henry Fielding A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Thomas Edward Brown A rich man's joke is always funny.
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  • Peter McArthur A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
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  • Bela Lugosi A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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