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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Roy H. Williams

Wise, Smart, Him

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato

Men, Wise, Hero

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

Past, Enough, Rich

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
Winston Churchill

Indeed, Modest, Mr

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Ayn Rand

Someone, Sacrifice, Reason

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand

Government, Legal, Against

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Law, Himself

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Democracy, Worth

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

Success, Money, Morning

The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Friend, Living

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy

Power, Poetry, Him

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strong, Weak, Accident

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson

Free, Able, Read

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford

Money, Hope, Experience

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Rights, Inherent

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing, Everything, Value

Man is a universe within himself.
Bob Marley

Universe, Himself, Within

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

Good, Wise, Fool

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare

Work, God, Moving

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

God, Sometimes, Ability

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Himself, Feels

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson

Trying, Put, Place

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness, Daily, Thinking

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.
Tom DeLay

Family, Care, Woman

He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato

Wise, Beer, Invented

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle

Best, Justice, Law

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Susan B. Anthony

Woman, Stand, Taught

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
Jennifer Aniston

Love, Best, Smell

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
C. S. Lewis

Another, Step, Saves

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