Ariel Durant Quotes
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Go West, young man.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.
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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
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That’s why Henry Ford started paying his lowest-paid employees $5 a day in 1914, more than $110 in today’s dollars.13 He had to: Turnover at the company was 370 percent in 1913.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
