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Men Quotes by Russell Baker
- Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance…
- The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
- So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies…
- What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him…
- A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if…
- After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together…
- There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables,…
- A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
- A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle