Quotes with men-intellectuals

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  • Charles Caleb Colton Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • C. S. Lewis Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • George D. Prentice Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Loretta Lynn My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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  • Agnes Smedley My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Arnold My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Bryan Callen My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke Nations, like men, have their infancy.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Antoinette Brown Blackwell Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
    Antoinette Brown Blackwell
    American Protestant minister (1825 - 1921)
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  • George William Curtis Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
    George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Bill Bryson Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
    The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ovid Neglect of appearance becomes men.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • William Wordsworth Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Karl Kraus News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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