Man Quotes
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The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection.
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I was not always a man of woe.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.
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Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
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A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
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Remove the document—and you remove the man.
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When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.
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Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.
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There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.
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I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.
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[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
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It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.
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In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.
