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  • Elmer G. Letterman A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.
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  • Stevie Smith A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
    Stevie Smith
    English poet and novelist (1902 - 1971)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Joseph Addison A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Francis Thompson A man should be an individual, but not independent.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • Alexander Pope A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Sigmund Freud A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Don Marquis a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Lucille Ball A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Barbra Streisand A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Archibald Macleish A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • E. B. White A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Georges Clemenceau A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Simone Weil A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • George Gurdjieff A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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