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Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good.

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So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

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I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

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Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

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Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

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It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

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We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers.

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Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

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The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

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The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.

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There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

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I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

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A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

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He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

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I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days. It was a fine, healthy life, too; it taught a man self-reliance, hardihood, and the value of instant decision...I enjoyed the life to the full.

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