Nick Cummins (Nicholas Mark Cummins) Quotes
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
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From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.
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We shouldn't tell prosecutors to 'pick and choose' what laws to uphold.
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Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.
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Inside every man, there's a yearning to express your wild side.
