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Former President of the United States

Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.

Man

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Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher, Writer, Translator, Historian, Mathematician

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Accident - Man

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

Demanding - Excitement - Feelings - Making - Man - Meaning - Morals - Pleasure

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Leo Tolstoy

Writer

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

Giving - Man

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Louisa May Alcott

Novelist, Poet

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Expectation - Help - Man - Wisdom

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

Giving - Man - Reason

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Voltaire

Writer, Historian, Philosopher

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Man - Playing

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William Blake

Poet, Painter, Printmaker

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Feelings - Man

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Intelligence - Man

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Susan B. Anthony

Social Reformer, Women's Rights Activist

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Man - Nations - Rebelling - Woman

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Sigmund Freud

Neurologist

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

Creativity - Feelings - Making - Man - Plan - State

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Muhammad Ali

Professional Boxer, Activist

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

Certainty - Feelings - Making - Man - Wellness

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Philosopher, Poet, Writer, Critic

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

Calling - Citizenry - Enforcement - Healing - Law - Living - Nations - Searching - Simple

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Jane Austen

Writer, Novelist

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

Man - Wants

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer, Political Activist

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Former President of the United States

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Man - Patriotism - Voting

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David Hume

Philosopher, Historian, Economist, Essayist

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Man - Philosophy

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William Howard Taft

Former President of the United States

Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would create a privileged class among the laborers and save the lawless among their number from a most needful remedy available to all men for the protection of their business interests against unlawful invasion.... The secondary boycott is an instrument of tyranny, and ought not to be made legitimate.

Availability - Courting - Labor - Making - Man - Privilege - Taking

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Thomas Merton

Monk, Writer, Theologian, Mystic, Poet, Social Activist

The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

Man - Progression

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Man - Praying

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Natural Philosopher, Diplomat, Civil Servant

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Destructiveness - Enforcement - Law

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

Man - Wants

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington - not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict.

Criminal - Man - Spirits - War

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

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Alexandre Dumas

Novelist, playwright

Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?

Belief - Man - Speaking - Studying

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Charles Dickens

Writer, Social Critic

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Cooking - Dining - Man

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic, Political Activist

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

Honesty - Man

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