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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
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All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
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All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
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Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941) -
Down went the owners - greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.
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Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
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