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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

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A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

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Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

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Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

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In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

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Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

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Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

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A man must take the fat with the lean.

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LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.

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Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

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