Maimonides Quotes
Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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A true man hates no one.
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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 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 man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.
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If you look for problems, you will find problems; if you look for solutions, you will find solutions.
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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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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
