Man Quotes
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And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not.
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A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
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Now if you were the kind of man to risk all this love we had, you would be crazy.
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Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
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U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
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The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
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Do what he will, he the profane man is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his past. He forms himself by a series of denials and refusals, but he continues to be haunted by the realities that he has refused and denied. To acquire a world of his own, he has desacralized the world in which his ancestors lived; but to do so he has been obliged to adopt an earlier type of behavior, and that behavior is still emotionally present in him, in one form or another, ready to be reactualized in his deepest being.
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It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.
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The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.
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We next read;—“The rib which the Lord God had taken from man made He a woman.” But the last words are by no means an adequate rendering of the original, which should be translated “builded He into a woman.” And there is a remarkable coincidence in the use of such a term, and the frequent application of the words “build “ and “edify” to the Church in the New Testament.
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Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
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But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man...
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In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
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Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
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If you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?
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The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man.
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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
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Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.
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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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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
