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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. – Norman Mailer

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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. – Norman Mailer

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Men
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Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body – it just wears it out. – Norman Mailer

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Exercise
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. – Norman Mailer

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You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. – Woodrow Wilson

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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. – Henry David Thoreau

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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Minorities

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority. – Walter Lippmann

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Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars. – Gilbert Parker

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

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Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and Ill show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things. – Lawrence D. Bell

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