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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

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If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Orison Swett Marden

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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Frederick Douglass

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Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

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A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

Ninon de L'Enclos

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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

William Ralph Inge

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Bob Brown

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Malcolm X

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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

Samuel Goldwyn

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

W. C. Fields

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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Frederick Douglass

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In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.

John Henrik Clarke

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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

John Dewey

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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Edgar Allan Poe

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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Democritus

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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

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