Man Quotes
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.
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You got to stand up and be a man. You can't just keep running off.
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But the bravest man among us is afraid of himself.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
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If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out."
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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I'm constant like the seasons, and I will never be forgotten man.
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Woe to the man who offends a small child!
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.
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But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.
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The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.
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A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.
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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.
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I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.
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We know too much for one man to know too much.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.
