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Quote link. Other quotes about: world man respect understand wish fact Other quotes by Johann von Goethe. "I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut." Quote link. Other quotes about: class house religion women clothed rule Other quotes by George Eliot. "The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined." Quote link. Other quotes by Johann von Goethe. "The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence." Quote link. 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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it." Quote link. Other quotes about: purpose government understand teach Other quotes by Louis D. Brandeis. "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Sallust. "Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue." Quote link. Other quotes by Sallust. "Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master." Quote link. Other quotes about: mental beauty rich Other quotes by Sallust. "The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession." Quote link. 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What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die" Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think hate important women change Other quotes by Eric Lustbader. "Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal." Quote link. Other quotes about: reason never Other quotes by Cesare Lombroso. "Good sense travels on the well-worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics." Quote link. 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Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Jacques Maritain. "Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence." Quote link. Other quotes about: human god man women fact Other quotes by Eric Mascall. "A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind." Quote link. Other quotes about: christ strength power god children child words teach Other quotes by Mark McGee. "What should we emphasize in our teaching We learn much from Paul's letters to Timothy and Titus. Paul mentored each and sent them out to the churches to encourage and instruct God's Children of Grace. Notice how often Paul uses the words 'command,' 'warn,' and 'remind' in his letters to Timothy and Titus. God wants us to be loving and gentle in the way we teach His children, but He also wants us to be strong, precise and decisive in what we declare. We are not 'asking' Christians to obey God's Word. We are 'telling' them what God commands. We have no special power in ourselves, but when we preach God's Word we have the 'Power' of God behind us Our preaching and teaching should be in the 'Power and Strength' of God. He gave us the responsibility and authority to declare His Word. We do it humbly, but we do it." Quote link. Other quotes about: believe Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken. "For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt." Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking mental physical think Other quotes by Peter McWilliams. "Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury." Quote link. Other quotes about: mental physical life pain love Other quotes by Peter McWilliams. "Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away." Quote link. Other quotes about: human never life wise moon women Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken. "Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill." Quote link. Other quotes about: christ man good wise Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken. "Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." Quote link. Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken. "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." Quote link. Other quotes about: women married Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken. "Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too." Quote link. Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken. "...the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free." Quote link. Other quotes by Menander. "Culture makes all men gentle." Quote link. Other quotes about: die Other quotes by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire. "Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses." Quote link. Other quotes about: wise Other quotes by Elizabeth Montagu. "I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress." Quote link. Other quotes about: wise wisdom Other quotes by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. "We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." Quote link. Other quotes about: die live time teach Other quotes by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. "He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live." Quote link. Other quotes about: need Other quotes by G. Campbell Morgan. "The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see." Quote link. Other quotes about: children women child family Other quotes by Ogden Nash. "A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." Quote link. Other quotes about: time never mind Other quotes by Oswald Mosley. 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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom." Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong die god live Other quotes by George Smith Patton, Jr.. "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." Quote link. Other quotes about: grow Other quotes by Pericles. "Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again." Quote link. Other quotes about: mental books world people book good love music Other quotes by William Lyon Phelps. "Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they They are the happiest people in the world." Quote link. Other quotes about: creative discover education Other quotes by Jean Piaget. 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Other quotes about: wrong die live world people man sun father today war love law country born Other quotes by Sitting Bull. "What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them....What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country" Quote link. Other quotes about: never success Other quotes by Samuel Smiles. "It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done." Quote link. 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Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." Quote link. Other quotes by Thomas Szasz. "Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. 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"All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods." Quote link. Other quotes about: fear Other quotes by Julius Caesar. "It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking." Quote link. Other quotes by Diogenes the Cynic. "Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad." Quote link. Other quotes by Cato the Elder. "I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one." Quote link. Other quotes about: wise success Other quotes by Cato the Elder. 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"Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust." Quote link. Other quotes about: die live time Other quotes by William Adams. "If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Quote link. Other quotes about: live sin country Other quotes by Charles Francis Adams, Sr.. "In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire." Quote link. Other quotes about: strength friend success Other quotes by Aeschylus. "Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy." Quote link. Other quotes about: friend man love Other quotes by Aeschylus. "For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying." Quote link. Other quotes about: friend Other quotes by Aeschylus. 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