Quotations
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Men
«They say, that of all the animals of the creation, the man is the only one who drinks without being thirsty, eats without being hungry and speaks without having anything to say.»
Author: Mago de Oz
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Men
«There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime»
Author: Maxwell Anderson
(Playwright)
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Age,
Men
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Higher Ground, inhabit, lift, walk-on
«That was one of the things that worried me - to be raised to the position of a semi-god - because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed,»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
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God,
Men
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fundamental, known as, Mandela, raised, semi, weaknesses, worried
«There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
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Men
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As Good as Dead, dead, perfectly, The Dead Man, unborn
«There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
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Fidelity,
Friendship,
Love,
Men
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brute, directly, fidelities, fidelity, frequent, gossamer, occasion, paltry, sacrificing, self-sacrificing, unselfish
«There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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Memory,
Men
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expunge, expunged, gladly, in a way, unpleasant