Gabriel Marcel Quotes
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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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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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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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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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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Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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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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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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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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I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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The only things we have to worry about are really stupid things.
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Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
