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  • Albert Camus To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Abraham Cowley To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
    Of Agriculture.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Marlene Dietrich To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Sophocles To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Helen Rowland To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare To be honest, as this world goes, is to be. One man picked out of ten thousand.
    Hamlet 2,2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Johnson To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Golda Meir To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • William Shakespeare To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Jane Harrison To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Henry Drummond To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Thomas Jefferson To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Algernon Sydney To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Plutarch To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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