Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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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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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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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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I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.
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The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
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These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!
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The world went insane before I did, I'm just adapting to the new reality.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
