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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.


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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.


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War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.


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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Martha Graham
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Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.


Walter Savage Landor
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I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.
Benjamin F. Wade
I didn't have a fraternity-like experience. I mean, I grew up with an older brother and a lot of male cousins and we were very physical with each other. We were very rambunctious when we were kids. But I never thought much - nor did I have reason to think much - about institutionalized hazing. But I think there's a reason young men are drawn to it.
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However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.


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I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out.


Troian Bellisario
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Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we're seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.
Trip Adler
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It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.
Lily Cole
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
Laurence Sterne
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We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.
Gordon Smith
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