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“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.”
— Margaret Thatcher
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“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”
— Pythagoras
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“Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”
— Garrison Keillor
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“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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“Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.”
— Honore de Balzac
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“No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”
— Herodotus
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“As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.”
— Pythagoras
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“Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.”
— Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry
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“I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.”
— George Jean Nathan
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“I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.”
— Richard Wagner
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“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.”
— Honore de Balzac
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“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”
— Honore de Balzac
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“Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.”
— Edwin Louis Cole
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“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”
— Ernest Gaines
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“Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.”
— Edwin Louis Cole
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“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
— Frederick Douglass
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“In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.”
— Walter Lippmann
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“Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
— Ezra Pound
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“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
— Katharine Hepburn
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“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”
— Abigail Adams
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“Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.”
— Isaiah Berlin
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“Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.”
— Rita Rudner
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“Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.”
— Loretta Lynn
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“Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.”
— John Ruskin
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