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Men Quotes by Nevil Shute
- The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.
- There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.
- The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money…
- It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if…
- Without work men are utterly undone
- Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in…
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