Alfred Richard Orage Quotes
A normal man is one who has not only actualized his potentialities but has freed himself from his subjectivity.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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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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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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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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John Schneider's cool. I mean, he is the epitome of cool. To be that confident without any chip on his shoulder is very hard to do, and that man just has it. To be that well-known and still be so personable and social, it's just fantastic.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
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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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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
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I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!
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To measure the man, measure his heart.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.
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I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
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A normal man is one who has not only actualized his potentialities but has freed himself from his subjectivity.
