Man Quotes
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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
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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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Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
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I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
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I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived.
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One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.
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Every man is his own worst enemy.
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
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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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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
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I'm a man of faith.
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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.
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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
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For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
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I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real.
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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.
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If a woman possessed the unfortunate combination of delicate skin, thin eyebrows, a curving spine and a ‘sharp tongue’, it would be almost impossible for a man to refrain from beating her.
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Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.
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The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
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A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
