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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.


G. H. Hardy
Tags: Men Should Write
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
Francesco Guicciardini
Tags: Men Like Had
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I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.


Richard Marx
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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.


Dorothy L. Sayers
Tags: You Your Only
As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
Johann Most
Tags: God Own Nothing
Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.
Thomas Frank
Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.
Ellen G. White
Tags: Will Own Should
I got into an argument with my original publisher. They wanted me to do 'Kitty' and nothing else. I wanted to do lots of things, not just 'Kitty' books.
Carrie Vaughn
Tags: Me Just Things
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Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.


Franz Liszt
Tags: Men World Put
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Evil prospers when good men do nothing.


John Philpot Curran
Tags: Good Men Nothing
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
Paul Harvey
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
William E. Gladstone
Tags: Men Strength Mind
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.


Victor Hugo
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
Patrick MacGill
Tags: Men Had Only
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
You know, men would much rather run away than talk about stuff, and my default setting has always been, 'If you have an argument, walk out the door.'
Stephen Moyer
Tags: Men You About
I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.
Neil Cross
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I'm well aware of the people's wishes.


Lee Myung-bak
Tags: People Well Aware
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.


Al Yankovic
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Havelock Ellis