Man Quotes
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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
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A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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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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When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.
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I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
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When a young man becomes a man it is a miracle. Indeed, I have become a man, I got married, I became a father. So I said yes to Miracle.
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Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.
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The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.
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Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.
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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
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We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
