E. M. Forster Quotes
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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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 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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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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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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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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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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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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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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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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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.
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I would like to believe every man is a one-woman man.
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Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
