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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso

Work, Necessity, Clock

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Alexander Pope

Love, Hate, Woman

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Good, Laugh, May

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison

Failure, Show, Satisfied

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose Bierce

Failure, Person, Makes

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Work, Good, Hard

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
Joseph Stalin

Death, Problem, Problems

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Poor, Honest, Remain

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Cannot, Become, Atheist

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Barbara de Angelis

Time, Women, Feeling

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell

Him, Situation, Felt

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Free, Earth, Birth

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Short, Himself

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Logan P. Smith

Great, Give, Advice

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle

Lives, Believing, Arguing

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
W. C. Fields

Place, Getting, Alive

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Greatest, Risk

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
Henry Ward Beecher

Live, Pray, Milk

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
Tori Amos

Love, Trust, Someone

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men, Says, Chief

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
Alexander Hamilton

Work, Perfect, Expect

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton

Power, Support, Found

One man's folly is another man's wife.
Helen Rowland

Wife, Another, Folly

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Jeff Cooper

Wise, Smart, Knows

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Erich Fromm

Power, Danger, Mankind

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Samuel Adams

Life, Feeling, Lost

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wind, Knows, Harbor

A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford

Silence, Known, Keeps

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon

Writing, Reading, Ready

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Power, Strong, Mind

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