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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

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And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.

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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

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The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

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Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

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A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

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War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

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Lawyer: The only man in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

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I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself. Prizefighters die young, gourmands get the gout, hate hurts worse the man who nurses it, and all selfishness robs the mind of its divine insight, and cheats the soul that would know. Mind alone is eternal. He, watching over Israel, slumbers not nor sleeps. My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.

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The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

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Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

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Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

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Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

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Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals.
Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village — in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly — the man who can "Carry a Message to Garcia."

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

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If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.

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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

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The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

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The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

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The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing — "Carry a message to Garcia!"

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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

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Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.

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