Man Quotes
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The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The absurd man is he who never changes.
Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy
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Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.
James Boswell
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But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
Alessandro Manzoni
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
Alan Cumming
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He who does not move with the times is a dead man...
Vicki Baum
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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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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.
Aristotle
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I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.
Craig Davidson
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A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.
Ian Paisley
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
Hermann Hesse
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky
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As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be.
Nicholas Sparks
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
Victor Hugo
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
George Bernard Shaw
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No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.
Plato
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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
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It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
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If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
William Blake