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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

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When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Euripides

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Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.

Shakuntala Devi

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The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Edward Everett Hale

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

Thomas Hobbes

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Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert Kennedy

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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

Zora Neale Hurston

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe

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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

William Blake

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I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

Douglas Wilson

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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Benjamin Franklin

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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I've been the luckiest man in the world because I've had friends, and to have the right friends is everything: people you can depend on, people who tell you the truth if you ask something.

Stan Lee

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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Plato

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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Ogden Nash

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Michael Korda

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A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Paul Valery

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