Man
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Theodore Roosevelt

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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Georges Bernanos

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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Jules Renard

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No man is infallible.

Pat Buckley

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

George Bernard Shaw

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

George S. Patton

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Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

Betty Friedan

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A man in the house is worth two in the street.

Mae West

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Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

Kevin James

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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Alexander Smith

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Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.

Allison Anders

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A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality.

John F. Kennedy

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I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

Hedy Lamarr

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Let no such man be trusted.

William Shakespeare

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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White

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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

John Adams

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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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