Man Quotes
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
