Made Men Quotes
34 quotes by 32 authors
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Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the…
— Mary McCarthy
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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a…
— Heinrich Himmler
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Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine
— Napoleon Hill
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It was man who first made men believe in gods.
— Critias
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Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.
— Rachel Kushner
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Self-Made Men are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education;…
— Frederick Douglass
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
— Frederick Douglass
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Law never made men a whit more just.
— Henry David Thoreau
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We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.
— Kin Hubbard
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The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have…
— Herbert Hoover
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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
— Thomas Paine
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Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
— Guy de Maupassant
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The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which…
— Rumi
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My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.
— Joseph Pulitzer
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I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble…
— Christina Rossetti
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
— Germaine Greer
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God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
— Arthur Erickson
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