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Men Quotes by Brooks Atkinson
- This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who…
- There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is…
- The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live…
- It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with ideas who are…
- The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
- The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
- Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
- Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity.…
- It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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