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Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
Martin H. Fischer

Words, Ideas, Fail

No nice men are good at getting taxis.
Katharine Whitehorn

Good, Nice, Getting

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
George William Norris

Sympathy, Often, Judgment

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

Life, Themselves, Search

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
Richard Schickel

Fear, Cold, Common

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln

Both, Congress, Masters

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Science, Power, Spiritual

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

Power, Character, Him

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Good, Wise

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence

Dreams, May, Night

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Good, Evil, Nothing

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare

Time, Women, Stage

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing, Hard, Thinking

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Death, Spiritual, Nation

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

Life, Nature, Experience

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

Sleep, Night, Violence

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha

Religion, Life, Live

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F. Kennedy

Strength, Easy, Lives

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

Wise, Speak, Fools

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

Religion, Time, Good

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Power, Live, Spiritual

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Friendship, Women

We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Missiles, Misguided, Guided

Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein

Morality, Force, Attracts

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Buddha

Act, Fate, Unless

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