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“There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.”

Men Firsts Law Common Cities Equal Tyranny One Man Tyrants Hostile

Book:The Tragedies of Euripides: Hercules furens. The Troades. Ion. Andromache. Suppliants. Helen. Electra. Cyclops. Rhesus

Source: The Tragedies of Euripides: Hercules furens. The Troades. Ion. Andromache. Suppliants. Helen. Electra. Cyclops. Rhesus

“Think of the man who first tried German sausage.”

Thinking Men Firsts He Man Eating Sausage

Book:Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

“From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.”

Men Trying Firsts May Pain Names Causes Powerful Spring Weakness Gains Love Life Trash Quackery

Book:The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

Source: The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

“I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man. I will endeavour to meet this obligation through music, since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.”

Men Firsts Artist Language Simple Fellows Boundaries Obligation Welfare Fellow Man Endeavour Simple Man

Author:Pablo Casals

“The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.”

Men Firsts Nations Independence Denial One Man Dogma Declaration Declaration Of Independence Infamous

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.”

Source: The Art Spirit

“O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.”

Knows Men Firsts Causes Numbers Feet Judging Delight Gods Will Chosen Doctrine Esteem Mortals Makers Primal Predestination

Author:Dante Alighieri

“To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!”

Men Firsts Seems Faces Three Devil Angel Sick Safety Patient Physicians Guardian Forgetfulness Guardian Angel Forgetful Sick Man

Author:John Owen

“The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.”

Men Firsts Steps Path He Man First Steps Pauses Halt Treason Quicksand

Author:Aaron Hill

“Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in the gospel that pastoral work and evangelistic work ought to be paid, and will they not believe it? They would all believe it if the Holy Ghost did not dispute our teaching. It is a powerful proof of the presence and grace of the Holy Ghost that they do not all believe it and act accordingly.”

Ifs Men Firsts Believe Courses Powerful Teach Grace Teaching Depends Ought Holy Lessons Paid Workers Proof Ghost Disputes Holy Ghost

Book:The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

Source: The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

“A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.”

Men Firsts Glad Significant Minorities Senior Companionship

Author:Stephanie Coontz

“Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.”

Men Firsts Half Sadness Misery Miserable

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Firsts Lasts Young Next Virtue Growing Youth Generous Young Man Sentiments Old Man Acquaintance Growing Old

Author:Samuel Johnson

“There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.”

Men Want Mind Firsts Long Two Hard Use Next Hard Work Two Things Good Times Worthwhile I Want You Going To Work Having A Good Time Sour Make Up Your Mind

Book:A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

Source: A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there never was and never will be, who turn up their noses at the counsel that is given them from the First Presidency, but who, unless they repent of and refrain from such conduct will eventually go out of the Church and go to hell, every one of them”

Men Firsts Turns Given Church Hell Heard Noses Great Men Presidency Repent Refrain Go To Hell

Author:Brigham Young

“But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.”

Men Firsts Remember Profession Grandfather Sections My Grandfather Pioneers

Author:Robert E. Howard

“When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.”

Men Firsts Speech

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other man do it.”

Men World Should Firsts Spirit Father Born Saviour

Book:The Essential Brigham Young

Source: The Essential Brigham Young

“A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.”

Thinking Men World Way Firsts Wells Matter States Use Care Nations Position Citizens Claims Affair Internals Household Great Nations Good Citizen Internal Affairs

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time. I want to be prudent without having my mind closed to anything that is new or different. I have often said that I was proud that I was a free man first and an American second, and a public servant third and a Democrat fourth, in that order, and I guess as a Democrat, if I had to takeplace a label on myself, I would want to be a progressive who is prudent.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964

“I arrived at my hut in Beverly Hills just in time to keep real estate men from plotting off and selling my front yard. They will sell you anything or anybody's in the world as long as they can get a first payment... It used to be only Iowa that was out here but now they have three or four adjoining states interested and they are here, too. Real estate agents - you never saw as many in your life; they are as thick as bootleggers.”

Men World Firsts Long Real States Used Three Saws Four Fronts Sells Selling Used To Be Agents Hills Thick Estates Yards Payment Iowa Huts Beverly Hills Estate Agents Too Real

Author:Will Rogers

“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.”

Ifs Men Years Firsts Use Used Three House Given Taken Fields Return Garden Claims Possession Owners Three Years

Author:Hammurabi

“God is seen as a male whose first creation was another man, Adam, whom we are told was made in his image and likeness.”

Men Firsts Made Women Creation Enlightenment Males Adam Another Man

Author:Frederick Lenz

“God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.”

Men Firsts Made Purpose Women Enlightenment Substance Adam Ribs

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that's why X-Men chimes with them - it's certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.”

People Thinking Men Firsts Ideas Young Black Audience Gay Proportion Gay People Demographics X Men Mutants Chimes Oddities

Author:Ian Mckellen

“War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.”

Men Firsts Has Beens War Young Careers Needed My Family Exciting Curiosity Curious Journalist Young Man Affected Glamorous

Author:Sebastian Junger

“Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means “I'm an idiot”. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling “I'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!”. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would”

Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

“It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.”

Source: Collected Poems

“There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man”

“Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority.”

Source: Alexander Hamilton: Lapham's Quarterly - Special Issue

“I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ..... I felt Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other.”

Men Trying Firsts Made Different Together Remember Spirituality House Felt Understanding Sides Records Heard Musician Incredibles Supreme Transition Remember When Coltrane

Author:Maurice White

“A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.”

Men Years Firsts Ends Skins Life Learning

Author:Saul Gorn

“Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.”

Source: Killosophy

“In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.”

Men Firsts Long Might Youth He Man Becoming Disappointment Seeking Pursuit Enthusiasm Hopeless Quests Suggestions Be A Man Ardor Relinquishing

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.”

Men Firsts Children Said Jesus Heaven Teacher Childhood Genuine Kingdoms Revelations Great Teacher Kingdom Of Heaven

Author:Edward Eggleston

“The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.”

Men Firsts Children Mother Teach Holy Kissing First Kiss Hope And Faith Children Love

Book:The Duties of Man and Other Essays

Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays

“Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.”

Men Want Giving Firsts Doe Reason Shows Opinion Type First Time Europe Species Fascism

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. Give no quarter to that thought, whether it threatens you with fear, or tempts you with hopes. For this is Superstition and all who believe it will come in the end to the swamps, to the south and the jungles, to the far south. Part of the same error is to think that the Landlord is a real man.”

People Thinking Men Giving Firsts Believe Real Ends Errors South Western Southern Quarters Superstitions Eastern Jungle Real Men Swamps Landlord

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.”

Men Firsts Passion Love Is Every Man Declaration Zenith Nadir Declarations Of Love

Book:Jaffery

Source: Jaffery

“Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.”

Men Firsts Feet Consequence Paradise Follow Me Misadventure

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.”

Men Firsts Understanding Opinion Particular Authority Reputation Combat

Author:John Dryden

“Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, turquoise, and copper beneath its surface they carved up the territory like children sneaking to the fridge and slicing off a chocolate cake bit by bit: hoping at first that the loss wouldn’t be noticed but ultimately not really caring.”

Source: Jewels: A Secret History

“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.”

Men Firsts White Attention He Man Superiors Indian Enjoyment

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.”

“Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.”

Men World Firsts Art Stills Judging Creatures Perfection Critics Philosopher Vices Accurate Truest

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man who puts service first and money second, who never has any money. The first class man in business is the man who is made up out of rolling the other two kinds into one man and working them together.”

Men Firsts Kind Made Two Together Business Class He Man One Man Rolling First Class

Book:The House of Twenty Seven Gardens

Source: The House of Twenty Seven Gardens

“The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.”

Men Firsts Facts Earth Heaven Mere Kingdoms Handful Kingdom Of Heaven

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?”

“My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.”

Men Firsts Father Blood Adventure Ocean My Family Exploration Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Bertrand Piccard

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