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• If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

  Isaac Barrow

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• Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

  Isaac Barrow

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• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  Isaac D'Israeli

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• To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius – the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

  Isaac D'Israeli

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• Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

  Isaac D'Israeli

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• Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

  Isaac D'Israeli

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• Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

  Gene Fowler

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• To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one’s comrades. It is to feel, when setting one’s stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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• Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

  Isabella Rossellini

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• All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

  Isaiah Berlin

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• The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

  Isaiah Berlin

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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 are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

  Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Xavier Comte

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• It takes two men to make one brother.

  Israel Zangwill

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• The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors go out.

  George Eliot

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• It’s not the men in my life that counts- -it’s the life in my men.

  Mae West

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• Men were deceivers ever, One foot in the sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

  William Shakespeare

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• What a piece of work is a man! How  noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! I action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god. The beauty of the world!  The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me–no, nor women either.

  William Shakespeare

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• Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don’t have to sew buttons.

  Heywood Campbell Broun Jr.

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