Man Quotes
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“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
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“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
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“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?”
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“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
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“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”
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“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
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“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
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“A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.”
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“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
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“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
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“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
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“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
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“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
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“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
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“I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.”
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“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
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“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.”
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“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
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“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
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“No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.”
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“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
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“In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.”
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“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”
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“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
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“That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
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“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
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“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
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“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
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“In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
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“Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.”
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“Time and tide wait for no man.”
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“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”
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“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
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“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
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“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
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“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
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“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”
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“Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.”
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“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.”
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“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
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“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”
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“Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.”
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“A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.”
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“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”
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“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
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“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
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“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
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“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
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“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
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“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
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“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
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“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
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“For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?”
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“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
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“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
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“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”
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“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
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“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”
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“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.”
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“My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.”
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“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.”
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“Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.”
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“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
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“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
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“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
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“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
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“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
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“Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.”
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“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”
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“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
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“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
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“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”
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“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
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“John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.”
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“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”
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“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
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“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.”
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“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”
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“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”
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“There's a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.”
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“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”
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“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”
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“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
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“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
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“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
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“I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.”
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“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
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“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”
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“Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”
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“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
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“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
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“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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“War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.”
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“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.”
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
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“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
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“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”
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“The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.”
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“A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
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“I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.”
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“The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.”
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“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”
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“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
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“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
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“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
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“The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.”
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“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”
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“Revenge… is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.”
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“One man with a gun can control 100 without one.”
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“Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It's easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it's time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.”
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“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
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“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.”
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“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
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“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”
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“If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.”
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“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.”
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“A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.”
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“A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.”
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“A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.”
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“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”
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“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”
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“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”
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“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
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“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
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“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”
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“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.”
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“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.”
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“Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.”
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“There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.”
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“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”
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“Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.”
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“Conscience is a man's compass.”
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“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”
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“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.”
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“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.”
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“I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.”
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“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.”
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“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”
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“Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'”
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“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”
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“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.”
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“The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”
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“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.”
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“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
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“A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”
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“Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.”
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“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”
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“You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.”
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“Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.”
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“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
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“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.”
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“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.”
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“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.”
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“And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”
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“Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”
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“I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.”
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“A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.”
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“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.”
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“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.”
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“Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!”
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“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.”
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“If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?”
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“Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.”
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“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
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“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”
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“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
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“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.”
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“I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.”
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“The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.”
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“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”
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“A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.”
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“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.”
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“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”
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“I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.”
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“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”
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“A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.”
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“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.”
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“Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.”
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“I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.”
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“Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
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“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.”
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“Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.”
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“The strong man is strongest when alone.”
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“I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.”
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“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”
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“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.”
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“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”
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“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
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“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”
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“Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him.”
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“It's always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that's what it's all about, man.”
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“Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.”
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“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
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“A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.”
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“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
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“Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.”
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“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”
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“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
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“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.”
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“When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.”
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“'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.”
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“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.”
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“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.”
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“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
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“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
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“We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.”
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“As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.”
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“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”
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“Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.”
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“I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.”
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“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.”
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“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
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“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”
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“A woman simply is, but a man must become.”
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“I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.”
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“Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.”
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“No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.”
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“Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.”
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“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.”
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“The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.”
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“Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.”
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“I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.”
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“If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.”
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“How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?”
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“One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.”
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“I am lucky that my in-laws are incredibly special people and I love them dearly. My father-in-law is an extraordinary man and my mom-in-law a beautiful and brave woman.”
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“Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.”
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“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”
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“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
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“I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.”
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“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
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“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
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“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.”
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“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”
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“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
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“For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.”
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“You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.”
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“The French revolution taught us the rights of man.”
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“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”
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“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”
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“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
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“Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.”
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“Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.”
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“A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.”
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“A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.”
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“Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.”
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“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”
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“That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”
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“Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?”
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“What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.”
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“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”
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“Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.”
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“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”
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“A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.”
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“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
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“Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.”
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“Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.”
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“Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.”
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“The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.”
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“Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.”
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“Usually, the loudest in the room is the weakes. The quietest man in the room, who is being very observant, is the smartest and the strongest.”
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“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
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“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”
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“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.”
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“The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.”
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“A man without a vote is man without protection.”
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“Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.”
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“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
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“Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda… and woke up with me.”
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“I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.”
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“I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.”
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“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.”
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“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”
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“We're only here for so long. Be happy, man. You could get hit by a truck tomorrow.”
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“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
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“A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.”
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“The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.”
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“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.”
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“The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.”
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“Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.”
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“What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
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“No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt?”
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“I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.”
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“If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.”
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“True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.”
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“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
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“The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.”
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“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
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“Hard times are when a man has worked at a job for 30 years - 30 years - and they give him a watch, kick him in the butt, and say, 'Hey, a computer took your place, daddy.' That's hard times!”
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“A man is known by the silence he keeps.”
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“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”
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“Black man, you are on your own.”
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“A man with God is always in the majority.”
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“Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.”
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“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
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“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
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“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.”
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“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”
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“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”
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“The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.”
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“Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.”
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“I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.”
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“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
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“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.”
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“In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.”
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“There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.”
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“Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.”
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“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.”
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“I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.”
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“To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.”
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“A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.”
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“Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility and to surmount the vulgarity of almost everybody.”
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“Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.”
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“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
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“A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.”
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“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”
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“You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.”
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“This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.”
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“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
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“One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.”
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“The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.”
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“You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.”
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“Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.”
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“Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.”
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“The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will attain high office. By land and sea, he will be feared.”
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“Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.”
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“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.”
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“Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.”
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“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
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“Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”
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“A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.”
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“All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.”
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“Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.”
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“It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.”
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“In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.”
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“That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”
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“I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.”
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“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
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“My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning.”
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“Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.”
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“Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.”
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“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.”
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“As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.”
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“The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.”
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“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”
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“A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.”
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“An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.”
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“You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.”
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“Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.”
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“Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.”
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“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.”
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“That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.”
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“The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.”
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“I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'”
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“My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.”
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“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”
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“Every man has a wild beast within him.”
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“Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.”
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“I just save my money, man. I don't even try to enjoy it like these other rappers; they having fun and they lit, but they gon' be broke later on. I be savin', I be chillin'. It feels good to know I got it, but it feel better to know I'ma keep it too.”
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“A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.”
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“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.”
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“We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.”
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“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.”
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“Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.”
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“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.”
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“'A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.' - e. e. cummings”
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“A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.”
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“I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.”
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“A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.”
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“My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'”
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“There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.”
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“God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”
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“We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.”
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“Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.”
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“I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.”
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“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
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“None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy.”
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“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
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“Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.”
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“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
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“Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.”
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“A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.”
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“We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.”
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“To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!”
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“My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'”
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“It takes a smart man to play dumb.”
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“No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.”
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“Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.”
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“In my songs there are no bad words, so kids can sing them, and girls can identify with singing with them, too, because it's not like a man singing reggaeton.”
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“You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.”
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“The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural… The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.”
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“Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.”
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“The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.”
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“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
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“If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.”
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“The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.”
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“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.”
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“All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.”
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“A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.”
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“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”
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“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”
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“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
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“A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.”
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“Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.”
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“God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.”
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“Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.”
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“Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man.”
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“No man is an island. No man stands alone.”
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“Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.”
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“There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.”
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“As long as you're moving forward whether it be one step or ten feet man, you got to keep going.”
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“Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.”
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“How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.”
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“There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.”
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“I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.”
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“It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.”
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“The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.”
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“I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.”
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“Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.”
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“A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.”
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“A man is only as faithful as his options.”
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“Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.”
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“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.”
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“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
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“Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.”
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“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
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“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
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“I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
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“You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.”
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“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
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“It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.”
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“There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.”
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“The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.”
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“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”
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“There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.”
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“By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.”
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“Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.”
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“Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.”
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“The more successful I become, the more I need a man.”
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“There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.”
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“Man has no greater enemy than himself.”
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“To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.”
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“Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”
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“I've been a bad boy trying to be a good man my whole life.”
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“It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.”
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“The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.”
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“God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.”
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“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
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“I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.”
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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“Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.”
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“I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, but I don't waste time with people.”
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“Prayer is man's greatest power!”
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“You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.”
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“Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.”
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“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
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“God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.”
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“A hungry man is an angry one.”
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“Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.”
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“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.”
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“You've got to give your past attention, but you've got to forgive yourself, acknowledge what you did wrong, and be a man, taking responsibility. You can't not fly anymore because of the things you've been through. You've got to believe in a brighter future, that better version of yourself.”
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“A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.”
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“There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.”
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“Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.”
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“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
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“A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.”
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“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
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“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.”
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“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.”
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“A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.”
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“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.”
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“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”
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“I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.”
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“The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.”
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“It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.”
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“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
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“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”
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“The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.”
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“By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.”
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“I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.”
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“I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.”
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“Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.”
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“The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.”
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“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.”
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“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
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“I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.”
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“Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.”
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“The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”
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“We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.”
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“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
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“We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.”
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“Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.”
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“I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.”
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“I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.”
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“What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?”
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“Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.”
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“It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.”
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“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
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“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.”
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“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.”
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“From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.”
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“The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.”
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“Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.”
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“Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
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“If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.”
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“The Son of God became man so that we might become God.”
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“I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.”
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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
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“I like the moment when I break a man's ego.”
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“The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.”
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“Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.”
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“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”
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“A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.”
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“The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.”
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“America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.”
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“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”
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“Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.”
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“All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.”
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“For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.”
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“Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.”
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“Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey… Doesn't try it on.”
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“A wise man, when he writes a book, sets forth his arguments fully and clearly; an enlightened ruler, when he makes his laws, sees to it that every contingency is provided for in detail.”
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“The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.”
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“An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.”
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“Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.”
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“I like a colorful sock. I'm a sock man.”
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“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”
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“An honest man is always a child.”
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
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“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
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“If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”
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“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
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“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
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“A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.”
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“I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.”
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“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
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“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”
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“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
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“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
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“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
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“There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.”
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“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
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“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
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“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
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“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
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“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
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“Great and good are seldom the same man.”
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“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
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“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
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“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
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“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”
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“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
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“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
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“Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.”
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“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”
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“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.”
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“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”
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“Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”
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“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
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“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
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“I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”
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“A true man hates no one.”
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“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”
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“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”
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“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”
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“When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.”
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“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
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“It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
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“There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.”
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“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
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“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
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“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
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“Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.”
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“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”
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“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
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“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”
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“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
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“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
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“It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.”
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“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
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“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
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“A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
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“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”
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“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
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“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.”
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“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”
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“A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.”
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“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”
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“A man's character is his fate.”
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“A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.”
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“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.”
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“Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.”
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“I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.”
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“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.”
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“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.”
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“The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.”
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“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
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“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
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“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.”
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“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
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“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”
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“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
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“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
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“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.”
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“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.”
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“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”
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“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
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“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
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“Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.”
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“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”
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“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
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“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
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“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
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“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
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“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
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“A man's only as old as the woman he feels.”
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“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
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“When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”
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“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
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“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
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“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
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“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
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“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
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“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”
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“The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.”
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“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.”
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“Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.”
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“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
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“I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.”
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“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
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“A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.”
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“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
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“God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.”
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“Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
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“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
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“Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
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“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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“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”
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“He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.”
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“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”
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“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”
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“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'”
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“One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.”
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“There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.”
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“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.”
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“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
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“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
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“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
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“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”
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“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”
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“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”
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“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
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“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
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“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”
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“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.”
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“In order to be the man, you have to beat the man.”
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“Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.”
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“The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.”
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“The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.”
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“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.”
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“Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.”
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“Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”
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“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
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“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
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“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”
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“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”
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“Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.”
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“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
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“By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.”
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“I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.”
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“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
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“The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.”
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“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
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“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”
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“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
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“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”
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“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”
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“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
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“He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.”
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“Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.”
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“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
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“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”
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“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”
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“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
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“Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.”
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“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
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“No man was ever wise by chance.”
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“A great man is always willing to be little.”
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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”
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“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
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“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.”
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“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.”
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“Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.”
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“As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.”
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“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
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“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
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“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
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“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
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“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.”
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“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.”
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“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.”
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“What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.”
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“My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.”
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“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”
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“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”
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“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
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“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”
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“I'm just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they're around me.”
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“Man is by nature a political animal.”
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“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.”
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“The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.”
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“In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.”
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“For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.”
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“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.”
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“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.”
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“Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.”
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“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
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“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
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“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
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“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
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“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
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“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”
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“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.”
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“Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.”
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“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”
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“Walking is man's best medicine.”
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“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”
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“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.”
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“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
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“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”
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“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”
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“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”
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“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”
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“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
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“Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.”
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“There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.”
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“Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.”
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“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
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“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”
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“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”
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“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
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“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
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“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
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“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”
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“Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.”
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“After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.”
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“Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.”
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“Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?”
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“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
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“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
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“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.”
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“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”
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“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”
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“There's many a man has more hair than wit.”
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“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”
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“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”
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“I'm an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.”
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“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
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“If a man does his best, what else is there?”
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“A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.”
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“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
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“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.”
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“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
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“Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.”
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“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”
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“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.”
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“You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.”
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“The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.”
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“No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.”
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“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
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“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
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“Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.”
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“No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.”
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“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”
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“O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.”
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“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
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“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.”
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“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
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“Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.”
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“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
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“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.”
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“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
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“It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.”
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“Character is what a man is in the dark.”
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“Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.”
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“A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.”
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“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”
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“I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.”
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“Violence is man re-creating himself.”
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“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
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“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”
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“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”
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“A man growing old becomes a child again.”
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“There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.”
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“For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”
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“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
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“Character, not circumstances, makes the man.”
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“The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!”
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“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.”
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“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”
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“The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.”
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“A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.”
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“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”
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“How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.”
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“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
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“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”
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“Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.”
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“I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.”
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“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.”
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“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”
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“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
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“What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.”
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“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”
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“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”
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“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”
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“That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
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“In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.”
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“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”
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“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.”
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“One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.”
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“The object of the superior man is truth.”
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“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”
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“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
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“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”
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“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”
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“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.”
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“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”
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“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
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“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”
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“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
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“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.”
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“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
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“With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.”
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“I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.”
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“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
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“When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.”
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“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
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“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
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“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.”
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“I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.”
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“Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.”
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“Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”
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“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”
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“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.”
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“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
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“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
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“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.”
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“A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.”
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“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.”
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“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
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“All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.”
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“No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.”
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“Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.”
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“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”
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“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.”
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“Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.”
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“I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.”
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“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
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“The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.”
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“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.”
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“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
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“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
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“Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.”
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“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
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“A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.”
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“Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.”
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“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”
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“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
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“Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.”
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“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
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“Man is to man either a god or a wolf.”
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“When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”
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“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”
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“Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.”
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“I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.”
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“We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”
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“The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.”
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“Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.”
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“A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!”
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“During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.”
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“To be the man, you gotta beat the man!”
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“Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.”
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“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.”
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“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”
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“A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.”
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“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
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“If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
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“No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.”
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“I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.”
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“This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.”
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“All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.”
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“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.”
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“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
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“The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.”
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“I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.”
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“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”
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“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
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“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
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“One man with courage is a majority.”
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“I like a man who grins when he fights.”
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“A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”
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“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”
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“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”
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“There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.”
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“If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.”
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“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
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“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
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“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”
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“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
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“A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.”
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“I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.”
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“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
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“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
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“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
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“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
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“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.”
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“The good man is the friend of all living things.”
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“A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.”
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“God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.”
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“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
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“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.”
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“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
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“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.”
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“A man's character is his guardian divinity.”
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“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”
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“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.”
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“Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”
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“There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.”
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“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.”
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“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
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“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.”
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“One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.”
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“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.”
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“Man is a universe within himself.”
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“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”
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“Man is not free unless government is limited.”
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“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.”
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“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”
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“From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.”
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“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
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“As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.”
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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
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“We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.”
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“Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
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“I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.”
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“What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?”
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“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.”
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“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
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“There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.”
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“The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.”
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“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
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“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
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“An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.”
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“For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.”
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“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”
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“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.”
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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
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“If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.”
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“Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.”
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“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”
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“It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”
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“It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.”
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“A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.”
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“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”
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“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
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“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”
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“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”
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“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”
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“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
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“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”
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“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'”
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“Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”
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“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”
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“Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.”
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“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.”
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“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
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“Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.”
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“It is right to give every man his due.”
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“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.”
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“It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”
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“A man should be upright, not be kept upright.”
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“Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!”
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“Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.”
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“A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.”
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“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
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“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”