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“We are intensely loyal to our parents. In spite of the pain we experienced at our parent's hands, we cling tenaciously to their views of life; and their examples of what it is to be a man or a woman follow us throughout life. Acknowledging the power of our loyalty to them, and especially our loyalty to our same-sex parent, is only the beginning of our journey to improve upon their model; but it is at least a first step.”

Men Firsts Hands Pain Sex Parent Views Steps Journey Example Models Loyalty Spite Loyal First Steps Be A Man

Author:Augustus Napier

“The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.”

Men Speak Enjoy Sound Water Animal Example Bears Rivers Sight Environmental Including Fishes Symbols Dependent Units Insects Ecological Deer Otters Elk

Author:William O. Douglas

“The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection. For example, throughout history, infections like “childbirth fever” claimed the lives of many innocent mothers and babies. Yet the Old Testament had the correct principles for the handling of infected patients, written more than 3,000 years ago! Many people perished because man’s quest for knowledge had failed to heed the word of the Lord!”

“If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine. I'm sure sociologists can come up with distinctions about what's different between men and women, but for every example you can give about what a woman does, you can come up with an opposite example of other women who don't do that. Those are more artificial distinctions, I think.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Doe Different Pay Attention Example Men And Women Opposites Come Up Honestly Pay Attention Distinction Feminine Artificial Masculine Sociologists

Author:Wayne Dyer

“If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.”

Ifs Men Looks Can Do Situation Example He Man Revolution Creating Slavery Slave Seeds Greek

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Men accept compliments much better than women do. Example: "Mitch, you look great." Mitch: "Thanks." On the other side: "Ruth, you look great." Ruth: "I do? Must be the lighting."”

Men Looks Humor Funny Sides Accepting Example Thanks Compliment Lighting Ruth

Author:Rita Rudner

“I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.”

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Author:Angela Davis

“The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there are no absolute moral standards, that "every man prospers according to his genius, and that every man conquers according to his strength; and whatsoever a man does is no crime" and "that when a man is dead, that is the end thereof".”

Men Doe Ends Philosophy Moral Crime Example Genius Standards Absolutes Ancient Every Man Scripture Conquer Vogue Discredit Absolutism Ancient Philosophy

Author:D. Todd Christofferson

“The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning capacity is limited. We can never feel as a jaguar, for example. We can imagine a man who believes or who intends to be a jaguar, but to intend is not the same as to be. We can have other ideologies, but we will continue restricted by the nature of our brain and of our body.”

Men Feels Believe Different Body Political Social Brain Imagine Example Habit Capacity Ideology Manners Political Systems Tuning Jaguars

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other, and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.”

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis

“The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.”

Men World Light Dark Walks Path Streets Example He Man Hero Saint Being Yourself Role Models Torches Kindles Blazing Setting An Example Great Hero

Author:Felix Adler

“Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.”

Thinking Men Way May Has Beens Running Imagination Known Opinion Impossible Example Divine Argument Invention Streams Be A Man Forming Opinions

Book:Selected Philosophical Works

Source: Selected Philosophical Works

“Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God — one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.”

Source: True Manliness

“Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something - and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.”

Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.”

Men Action Virtue Example Argument

Author:John Webster

“Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.”

Men Problem Technology Struggle Example Photography Machines Overcoming Cameras Photographer Dependent Paradoxical Mechanization

Author:Ernst Haas

“Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.”

Men Children Example

Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education

“You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.”

People Men Two Example Equal Men And Women Definitions Two Things

Author:Anthony Browne

“Just go to an auto show, and you'll see all the signs of sexual arousal in the men: shiny eyes, tremors, sex flush. An acute example of the need for professional sex research.”

Men Needs Shows Eye Sex Example He Man Research Arousal

Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they're ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this.”

Ifs Men Might Young Strong Can Do Example Son Ready Young Man My Son Strong Minded

Author:Frank Langella

“Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.”

Men World Giving Kind Enjoy Pleasure Example All Kinds Items Adventurous Earthquakes Shipwreck Knowledge Of The World Mutiny Unpleasant Experiences

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality and to spread the roots for the actual implementation of equal rights for women and men and democratic values among different cultures, societies and traditions.”

“As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson and Walter Blanning. I taught them when they were in high school, and now they teach me.I'll regularly call Ali and say, "Man, can you break this rhythm down for me?" Or Carlos was actually our music director in Cuba, and he's been instrumental in a lot of my education, and I started to develop a saying with them, because they tease me all the time - you get older, you have that familiar relationship - I say, "You have to follow your young leadership, too."”

Men School Young Teach Break Example Taught Band Directors Members High School Familiar Rhythm Orchestra Cuba Tease Tease Me

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.”

Men Wells Example Authority Understood Timely Posthumous

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have vowed to God, following the example of my father, to be a righteous and gentle prince, to foster piety and the fear of God, to maintain peace, to further the welfare of the country, to be a help to the poor and oppressed, and to be to the righteous man a true protector.”

Men Country Helping Government Father Poor Taken Example Kings Following Gentle Welfare Righteous Thrones Oppressed Piety Protector Being A Father Righteous Man

Author:Wilhelm II

“A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.”

Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

“The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.”

Men Novel Example Highest Subtle Interrelatedness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great.”

Men Made Nations President Forget Events Example He Man Presidents Day

Author:Lyn Nofziger

“When young men prepare, bless, and pass the sacrament in worthiness and reverence, they literally follow the example of the Savior at the Last Supper and become like Him.”

Men Lasts Young Example Young Man Bless Savior Reverence Sacraments Worthiness Supper Last Supper

Author:Robert D. Hales

“Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct it. How, for instance, can one compare a socialized post office with private postal delivery when the latter has been outlawed?”

Men Has Beens Impossible Example Activity Office Instance Posts Compare Latter Concrete Free Market Delivery Post Office

Author:Leonard Read

“We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.”

“Christianity, righty understood, is utterly unlike religion that man invents. It is so completely contrary to the way man does things that it must have come from God. Take Christmas, for example; only God could have thought of that. When man invents a super being, he comes up with a Superman, or a Captain Marvel. God gives the world a baby.”

Men World Way Giving Doe Christianity Example Baby Understood Come Up Contrary Captains

Author:Richard Halverson

“A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.”

Men Should Mind Wells Example Aim Chiefs Wiser Traveler Good Examples Foreign Places

Book:Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition

Source: Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition

“It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.”

Men World Art Rich Example Personality Becoming Aim Selling Rich Man

Author:Hermann Goring

“Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.”

Men Persons Example Profession Every Man Skeptic

Book:Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme

Source: Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme

“The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.”

Men Kind Littles Persons Might Care Suffering Poverty Example Disease Glory Vices Tales Unexpected Tragic Worn Persecution Petty Exceptional Calamity

Book:Shakespearean Tragedy

Source: Shakespearean Tragedy

“My father is very Jean Valjean. He's what I would call a great example of a religious person. He is a deeply thoughtful man whose religion is in his deeds way more than anything else. It's not talked about that much.”

Men Way Persons Father Religious Example Deeds Thoughtful Religious Person Jean Valjean

Author:Hugh Jackman

“We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.”

“History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.”

Men Example Becoming

Author:Albert Einstein

“The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in every nation. Today, for example, in the United States, the two political parties have decided to employ public relations men, that is, advertising men, who are trained in the necessary methods of telling the truth or lying in order to develop a product.”

“The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.”

“The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.”

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Author:George Washington

“This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.”

Source: Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals

“If Jesus came as God, then why did God have to anoint Him? If Jesus - see God's already been anointed. If Jesus came as God, then why did God have to anoint Him? Jesus came as a man, that's why it was legal to anoint him. God doesn't need anointing, He is anointing. Jesus came as a man, and at age 30 God is now getting ready to demonstrate to us, and give us an example of what a man, with the anointing, can do.”

Ifs Men Needs Giving Age Jesus Can Do Example Ready Anointing Age 30

Author:Creflo A. Dollar

“There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a promise - for example, you promise yourself you're just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you're in bed together.”

Knows Men Bigs Together Example Promise Bed Coffee Obsession Big Things Remorse Consensus Satiety

Author:Susan Cheever

“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not contending in a dogmatic way that there is not a God. What I'm contending is that we don't know that there is. I don't like the word "absolute." I don't think there is anything absolute whatever. The moral law, for example, is always changing. At one period in the development of the human race, almost everybody thought cannibalism was a duty.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Humans Facts Law Belief Race Moral Effects Example Duty Development Periods Evidence Absolutes Favors Human Race Dogmatic Moral Law Cannibalism Contending Good Moral

Author:Bertrand Russell

“At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the rats and the cockroaches and drowns himself with alcohol and anesthetizes himself with dope, to try and forget where and what he is. That Negro has given up all hope. He's the hardest one for us to reach, because he's the deepest in the mud. But when you get him, you've got the best kind of Muslim. I look upon myself as a prime example of this category - as graphic an example as you could find of the salvation of the black man.”

Men Trying Looks Kind Bigs Night Given Social Black Forget Cities Example Salvation Bottom Alcohol Hardest Look Up Prime Categories Rats Mud Given Up Graphic Ghetto Dope Big Cities Cockroaches

Author:Malcolm X

“I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infrequently something triggers the urge to weep, but I don't allow myself.”

Men Saws Cry Example Western Ancient Urges Triggers

Author:Rod Serling

“I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking about standing up for our rights, and women weren't leaving abusive relationships with men. There were just so many disconnects.”

People Men Young Talking Saws Rights Feminism Example Standing Leaving Feminist Saved Solidarity Abusive Matching Abusive Relationship

Author:Eve Ensler

“A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.”

Men World Has Beens Stills Today Example Battle Female Prejudice Conductor Good Examples Conducting Today's World

Author:Lara St. John