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• When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

  Jerry Lewis

  Men, Would Be, Needs

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• You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Fighting, Intelligent

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• I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Prejudice, Paradox

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Richard Lawrence Archer (1964). “Jean Jacques Rousseau: His Educational Theories Selected from Émile, Julie and Other Writings”, p.98, Barron's Educational Series

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• If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue,
  Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch;
  If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
  If all men count with you, but none too much;
  If you can fill the unforgiving minute
  With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
  Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
  And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Running, Hurt

  "If - " st. 4 (1910)

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• I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

  Little Richard

  Men, Wanted, Felt

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• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  Marat Safin

  Men, Losing, Ifs

  "Marat Safin crashes out of Shanghai with swipe at Berdych and Roddick". www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2009.

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• Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

  Maya Angelou

  Mean, Men, Rude

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• I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Catholic, Reign

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• When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Men, Action

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• To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Acceptance, Power, Men

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. I), 1916.

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• Why be a man when you can be a success?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Bertolt Brecht (1964). “Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht”

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• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Cutting, Science, Men

  1953 'The Sense of Human Dignity', lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19 Mar.

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• I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

  Cornel West

  Wise, Men, Ideas

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.19, Basic Books

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• Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fall, Past, Men

  "Either/Or". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, transl. in "Bulletin: Comparative literature series", Nr. 3, Texas University (1912), p. 45, 1843.

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• Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Men

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• It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Simple, Womanly

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

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• I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Insecure, Men, Thinking

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• I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Men, Thinking, Vision

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• If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

  John Updike

  Children, Men, Ice Cream

  John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.244, Random House

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• The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Law, Doe

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings”

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• Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

  Patti Smith

  Men, Thinking, Santa

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• Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

  Samuel Adams

  Character, Patriotic, Men

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• It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

  David Mamet

  Men, Upset, Our Society

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• A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.

  Maureen McCormick

  Men, World, Way

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• Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Degrees

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

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