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Men Quotes by John Dos Passos
- A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right
- The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders…
- A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to…
- A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.
- Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We…
- Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes…
- I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal…
- When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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