John Ruskin Quotes
It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
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It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
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The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
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See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!
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It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.
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I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.
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I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.
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It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.
