Elizabeth Wein Quotes
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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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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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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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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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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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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As a Christian, I view relationships and marriage as being between a man and a woman.
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.
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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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We agree that man was not created to survive in space.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
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The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.
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Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.
