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Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Winter Quotes , Men Quotes

Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.

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If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

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It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

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Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Men Quotes , Names Quotes

Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation.

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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

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If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Girl Quotes , Men Quotes

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Life Quotes , Men Quotes

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Men Quotes , Enough Quotes

To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Race Quotes

Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

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I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Inward Quotes

All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

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My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

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