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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
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Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
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Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?
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Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
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Is there war in our religion? No; neither war nor bloodshed. Yet our enemies cry out bloodshed, and oh, what dreadful men these Mormons are, and those Danites! how they slay and kill! Such is all nonsense and folly in the extreme. The wicked slay the wicked, and they will lay it on the Saints.
Source: Danites Journal of Discourses, 12:30 (Apr. 7 1867) -
It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
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It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
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It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.
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It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
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It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
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It is a man's world, and you men can have it.
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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