Man Quotes
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It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
Abraham Lincoln
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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
Jane Austen
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.
Alex Blackwell
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I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.
Saskia de Brauw
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It is passing strange to be in the company of black women And be the only one who does not worry about not being with a man
Cheryl Clarke
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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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For as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.
Sarah Fielding
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What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself – on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.
J. P. Morgan
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The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great
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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
Sophocles
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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
Oswald Chambers
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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
Aristotle
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You do not hunt a man who comes looking for you," Temujin reminded him softly.
Conn Iggulden
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Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.
Aristotle
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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
Blaise Pascal
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I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
Walt Whitman
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Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.
Stevie Wonder