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«Men are only as loyal as their options.»
«Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their happiness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the serving»
«Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months - and without a new thought for years on end.»
Author: Kent Ruth
| About:
Living,
Mankind,
Men
| Keywords:
canned food, food for thought, months, two weeks, weeks
«Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Books,
Mankind,
Understanding
| Keywords:
contents
«Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions»
«Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Civil rights,
Justice,
Liberty,
Mankind,
Men,
Morality
| Keywords:
appetites, civil liberties, civil liberty, disposition, liberties, qualified, rapacity
«Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.»
«Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
in proportion to, readiness, willingness
«Men become old, but they never become good»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Ageing,
Human Nature,
Mankind
| Keywords:
men, old
«Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Mankind,
Men
| Keywords:
bear on, bring to, bring to bear, inept, pitiful
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