Apostolos Doxiadis Quotes
Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!
Quotes to Explore
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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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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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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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.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.
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Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.
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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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I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.
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Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!
