Man Quotes
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When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there is no way back to the herd. But in human society there is a continuous exchange of experience. I have never heard of a man who broke away and fled while being led to his execution. It is even thought to be a special form of courage if a man about to be executed refuses to be blindfolded and dies with his eyes open. But I would rather have the bull with his blind rage, the stubborn beast who doesn't weigh his chances of survival with the prudent dull-wittedness of man, and doesn't know the despicable feeling of despair.
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If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.
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He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
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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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The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able to reason logically, to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.
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Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
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Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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The American people need to know where this man stands on the issue of privacy.
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Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
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The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
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Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
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A man who refused to be warned only remembers the warning when his forehead is covered with wounds.
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Set it up in Zimbabwe, Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality. So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle, 'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble.
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You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.
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The only thing that saved that man that night was I didn't have mine. That was it. Bottom line. I just slipped that night. But I won't ever slip again.
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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
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Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character...
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
