Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
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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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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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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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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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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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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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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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Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
