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Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

William Golding

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

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

Paul Valery

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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.

Viktor E. Frankl

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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

E. B. White

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My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up'.

Joe Biden

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The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything'. I say, 'Only one man can do anything'.

John W. Gardner

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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

John Ruskin

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The strong man is strongest when alone.

Friedrich Schiller

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