Alfred the Great Quotes
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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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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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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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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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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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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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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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'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
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When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
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Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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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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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.
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I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.
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If somebody is smoking a joint in a movie, I say it's a cigarette - a big cigarette if it's a Cheech and Chong movie.
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The greater the man the greater the courtesy.
