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• What we do have to do, is listen to what Donald Trump's been saying about our military. He's called it a disaster. He says our military can't win anymore. That's a direct insult to every single man and woman who's wearing the uniform today.

  John R. Allen

  Military, Winning, Men

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• I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.

  Raymond Burr

  Men, Married, Bachelors

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• The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.

  Edward Gibbon

  Revenge, Ambition, Men

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.488

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• There are always so many things happening [to us] at one time. We read Isherwood's A Single Man in class, and we had to ask: How is he talking about all this stuff: teaching, being lonely, all his memories, all at the same time? He's telling us: This is where my head is at, let me be straightforward. And of course, try be artful about it.

  Paul Beatty

  Lonely, Memories, Teaching

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• We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Thinking, Our World

  Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R Kiernan, Elizabeth Bear (2014). “Lovecraft's Monsters”, p.21, Tachyon Publications

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• Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Race, Years

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.72, OUP Oxford

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• People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Selfish, Men, Vacation

  Michel Houellebecq (2003). “Platform: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Mean, Fate, Men

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 8: "The Monsters", p. 120, 1970.

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• Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teamwork, Honesty, Integrity

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• Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Loneliness, Men

  The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

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• I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.

  Jack Nicholson

  Home, Men, Three

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• Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Men, Mrs Bennet

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course).

  Donald Davidson

  Events, World, Language

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• Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Crowds, Vote

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.449

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• I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Men, Long

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

  Dan Dailey

  Inspirational, Military, Patriotic

  "The Marines' Bulletin", Vol. 1, Issues 1-3, 1918.

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• I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don't know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Careers, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2012). “The Art of War (The Classic Lionel Giles Translation)”, p.33, e-artnow

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• The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given no man ability to do much, that something might be left for every man to do. The business of life is carried on by a general co-operation; in which the part of any single man can be no more distinguished, than the effect of a particular drop when the meadows are floated by a summer shower: yet every drop increases the inundation, and every hand adds to the happiness or misery of mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Summer, Men, Hands

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.291

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• Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?

  Larry David

  Men, Thinking, America

  "Curb Your Enthusiasm". TV Series, (2000-).

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• In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Liberty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.378, Modern Library

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• The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Men, Average

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Two, Democracy

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• Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren.

  Isham G. Harris

  War, Men, Rights

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• But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally been the result of a single man's observations; or the offspring of particular interests. In the formation of our constitution, the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted-as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. In short, it is an empire of reason.

  Noah Webster

  Men, Age, Together

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