"Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving."
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"Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving."
"My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners."
"When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy."
"You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men."
"If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth."
"Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests."
"Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink."
"Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men."
"The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with."
"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."
"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."
"The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations."
"Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree."
"The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally."
"There would be no great men if there were no little ones."
"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."
"Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine."
"I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create."
"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."
"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."
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