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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

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The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Thomas Hobbes

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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Confucius

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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Plato

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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

Al Green

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Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Alphonse Karr

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A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

Frank A. Clark

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Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Frank A. Clark

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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Bernard Williams

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Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Groucho Marx

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The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

Prince Philip

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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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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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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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

Frank Abagnale

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

John Dewey

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My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.

Irina Shayk

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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

B. R. Ambedkar

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