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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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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We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.
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You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
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I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
