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• It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Trying, Lasts

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• “To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

  Albert Camus

  Men, Thinking, Despair

  "Happy Death".

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• All right." He straightened up and seemed to be true to his promise to let it go. "I will be a man about this." That lasted until he saw the scratches on the hood from the mountain lion and the front fender, Where Abigail had dragged it off the driveway. Wailing, he went to it and sank to his knees. He sprawled over the hood and laid his head on the damaged fender. "I'm so sorry, Bets. I should of hidden the keys. Booted your tires. Something. I had know idea anyone would hurt you so, baby. I swear I'll never let anyone hurt you again. Ayyy, how could they do this to you? How? Oh the humanity!

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Hurt, Sorry

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.260, Macmillan

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• I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 19, 2001.

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• I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Selfish, Work, Loneliness

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• You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Men, Names, Want

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2009). “Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy”, p.252, Yearling

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• All right. I will be a man about this…I’m so sorry Bets. I should have hidden the keys. Booted your tires. Something. I had no idea anyone would abuse you so, baby. I swear I’ll never let anyone hurt you again. Ayyy, how could they do this to you? How? Oh the humanity!” – Andy “I really need to get that boy a girlfriend- or at least laid.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Girlfriend, Hurt

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• As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Girl, Philosophical, Fighting

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• Just hold on. Just for a minute." "Are you all right ?" I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong. "I'm fine. I just...I don't want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about...I just...want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

  Jojo Moyes

  Girl, Men, Thinking

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• She wanted an Angel of Music . . . an angel who would make her believe in herself at last. I'd been the Angel of Doom for the khanum. There was no reason in the world why I could not be the Angel of Music for Christine. I couldn't hope to be a man to her, I couldn't ever be a real, breathing, living man waking at her side and reaching out for her . . . But I could be her angel' -Erik

  Susan Kay

  Real, Believe, Angel

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• To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.

  Ivo Andric

  Ocean, Men, Knowing

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• If you’re a man at night, you’ve got to be a man in the morning.

  Ryan Lochte

  Morning, Night, Men

  "‘What Would Ryan Lochte Do?’ Good question, but don’t ask him" by Liane Bonin Starr, uproxx.com. April 23, 2013.

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• If you're losing, just be a man, be a man and lose as a man. Don't pretend that you are injured and then you start running around and start to hit winners, and then all of a sudden you pull the hands up in the air after winning the match. I mean, what kind of sportsman are you? What kind of man are you?

  Marat Safin

  Running, Mean, Winning

  "Marat Safin crashes out of Shanghai with swipe at Berdych and Roddick", www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2009.

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• Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely feminine. Everything she does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. She makes a man proud to be a man.

  Clark Gable

  Men, Doe, Different

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• The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Ministry, Forgotten

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.108, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

  Michael Faraday

  Education, Men, Judging

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.198, Cambridge University Press

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• Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your
  country, let men label you as they may.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Integrity, 4th Of July

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• Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

  Thomas Tusser

  Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

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• One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's own conscience, in the looks of those who surround us. One would wish to find the strength to beautify one's thoughts and to purify one's heart. It is everyone's hope and expectation to live in serenity and to plod along in transparency: the palms of the hands patiently directed towards heaven, at the heart of all this modernity.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Men, Mirrors

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity”, p.19, Kube Publishing Ltd

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• A man of truth must also be a man of care.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Care

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.41, GENERAL PRESS

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• My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it is to have every one whom we meet for our brother in the sight of God; that it is this, never to meet anyone, however bad he may be, for whom we cannot say: "Christ died for that man, and Christ cares for him still. He is precious in God's eyes, and he shall be precious in mine also".

  Charles Kingsley

  Brother, Eye, Men

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• We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of us wouldn't soar if God had thought there was merit in the idea? So, when we see one of those great widespread pirates soaring across the grain of sea winds we thrill, and we long, and, if we are honest, we curse that we must be men every day. Why not one day a bird! There's an idea, now, one day out of seven a pirate in the sky. What puny power a man can attain by comparison. Compare a 747 with a bird and blush!

  Roger Caras

  Heart, Men, Wind

  Roger A. Caras (1971). “Birds in flight”, Westover Pub. Co

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• We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Literature, Want

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• No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.

  Leo Strauss

  Men, Long, Evil

  Leo Strauss (1978). “The City and Man”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Order, Concern

  Immanuel Kant (1904). “The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant”

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