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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • William James We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Robin George Collingwood What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • Joseph Addison What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Adam Smith What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Louis L. Mann What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
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  • Jean Genet What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Euripides When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Adam Weishaupt When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Booker T. Washington Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder... wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker.... There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Horace Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Andre Maurois Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
    Andre Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Blind Lemon Jefferson Woman rocks the cradle and I declare she rules her home Many man rocks some other man's baby and the fool thinks he's rocking his own.
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase ''It is the busiest man who has time to spare.''
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Medgar Evers You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
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  • Booker T. Washington You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Horace You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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