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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington

Him, Down, Cannot

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Charles Darwin

Future, Almost, Period

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Successful, Behind, Stands

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer

Someone, Remember, Else

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Helen Rowland

Love, Happy, Woman

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
Bertrand Russell

Opinion, Progress, Whether

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden

Life, May, Ignore

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo

Country, Greatness, Determined

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
William James

Him, Social, Recognize

Man lives for science as well as bread.
William James

Science, Lives, Bread

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James

Fact, Call, Praise

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
W. Somerset Maugham

Home, Sex, Bothered

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Great, Military, Nor

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
Bill Copeland

Time, Rock, Boat

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm

Life, Meaning, Except

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
Erich Fromm

Love, Human, Reason

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch

Good, Power, Future

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo

God, Hope, Word

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin

Heart, Wishes, Scientific

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin

Seems, However, Noble

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Aldous Huxley

Work, Good, Feeling

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Great, Soldier, Far

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
Guru Nanak

Live, Delusion, Cross

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
Coco Chanel

Wanted, Bird, Heavily

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Said, Support

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle

Time, Power, Strength

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing, Afraid, Getting

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Miserable, Thinks

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great, Adversity, Against

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