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Men Quotes - Page 355

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

"See It Now (A Conversation with J. Robert Oppenheimer)". Documentary (interview with Edward R. Murrow), January 4, 1955.

No man has any influence or power for good when angry.

J. Golden Kimball (2008). “J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons”, p.107, Latter-day Publishing

The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.

Attributed to Locker's Greenwich Gallery article "Torrington" in Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan "The Life of Nelson, Volume 2: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain" (p. 52), 1897.

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.109, BookBaby

Be your own guide, follow your own movement.

Song: We Got Our Own Thang, Album: Big Tyme

One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs by-everyone else: a "tragedy of the commons" is created.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.96, Transaction Publishers

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

Guy Debord (1994). “The Society of the Spectacle”, Zone Books (NY)