Xun Kuang Quotes
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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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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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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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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I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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I believe that Bitcoin is going to change the way that everything works. I want entrepreneurs to tell me how its going to change. Build the equivalent of an Iron Man suit with Bitcoin.
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There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
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There is a possibility that there is somebody out there alive today over 122, but we'll probably never know it, because in all likelihood they come from either China or India, and they don't have reliable birth records.
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Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
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How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
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Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
