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The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.
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A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.
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In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.
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There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
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A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
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Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Born:
October 29, 1882
Died:
January 31, 1944
(aged 61)
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