Elizabeth Wein Quotes
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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 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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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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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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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.
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Any working hypothesis was probably going to involve quantum theory at some point—the part of physics that made my brains trickle out of my ears.
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Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's difficult at times. But when I go home to north Wales, or to somewhere I've never been in south Wales, I still feel at home because I'm in Wales. It's hard to explain.
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Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.
