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When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.

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Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

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ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

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To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

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Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

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As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.

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...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.

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Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.

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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

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The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

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All men are poets at heart.

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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

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