Man Quotes
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A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.
Confucius
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It has never worked - it never will. I don’t know what you want to hang on to me for. You should have let me go at the beginning. Why did you beg me to marry you at Frederick that day? I would have got another man.
Christina Stead
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Man is bound to lie about himself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!
Rumi
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Nature made the fields and man the cities.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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I'm retired, man. I'm loving it. Just being a bum. I kind of like it.
Kirby Puckett
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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
Francis Bacon
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
Sophocles
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The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct.
Confucius
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Jung
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Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.
Albert Einstein
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And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
Patricia Ireland
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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
Albert Einstein
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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.
G. H. Pember
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One don't like setting out to help to bring a man to the gallus when you have got his money in your pocket.
G.A. Henty
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I was a man by middle school.
Edgerrin James
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I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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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 superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius
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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
Oscar Wilde
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A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Man has been adjudged a social animal.
Frances Wright
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The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
Mary Astor
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
Oscar Wilde