Man Quotes
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A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
E. B. White
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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
George Bernard Shaw
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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is 'unprofessional,' the athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
Ida Tarbell
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But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man...
Tone Loc
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Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul? Thoughts that I ask others several upon several, still feeling spirits upon spirits with the few moments of love, comfort, unity, & compassion all in a few seconds the holding of each other. The hole that is missing is slowly filled with happiness, joy, good or bad times.
Brian Perkins
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Man's legal rights are everywhere in collision with man's natural rights; hence the deep-rooted and wide-spread unrest of modern civilization. The only sacred right of property is the natural right of the working man to the product, which is the creation of his labor. The legal right of the capitalist to rent and interest and profit is the absolute denial of the natural right of labor.
Albert Parsons
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
Mikhail Lermontov
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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.
Abdullah Ibrahim
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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
Abraham Lincoln
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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
Oscar Wilde
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I don't really like pants, man. I like tights. I'm not really a pants person. I choose not to wear pants.
Taylor Momsen
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
Jonathan Swift
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We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Harold Kushner
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No man is free who cannot control himself.
Pythagoras
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
William Faulkner
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The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.
Aristotle
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
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Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
Abraham Lincoln
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Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.
Immanuel Kant
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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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I found all these stupid pictures of cats at the beach, and I was like, "They get it, man. They totally get it."
Bethany Cosentino
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Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle