Man Quotes
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Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
Confucius
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Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn — the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
Tim Page
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
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God is Man's greatest invention.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.
Charles Wagner
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
Cintra Wilson
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
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And I say it's not. I tell them these men and women are over there because our country sent them, and we have the absolute necessity to try to bring them as much happiness as we can.
Wayne Newton
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I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning.
T. J. Thyne
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Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Man, who don't like spaghetti?
Jack Roy
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He was essentially a quiet man, a man who never wrote letters…
R. M. Williams
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I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
Ted Shawn
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I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
Jane Austen
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Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.
Daniel Barenboim
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Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
Homer
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Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.
Vida Blue
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Samuel Butler
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Every old man that dies is a library that burns.
Amadou Hampate Ba
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A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
Arnold Haultain
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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
Frances Wright
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The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
Christine de Pizan