Man Quotes
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.
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The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.
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[On his father] He was a man of another age, really, holding a set of values that differed in essence from those that most men hold today. The son of a pioneer settler, he grew up believing along with most of the men of his world that a man’s physical strength was his measure.
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The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
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Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.
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One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting a new business. Rather, the Prince should be ready to reward men who want to do these things and those who endeavour in any way to increase the prosperity of their city or their state.
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Femininity doesn't always relate to being a woman and masculinity doesn't always relate to being a man; it's a quality of being-ness. Women have to portray the quality of masculinity; society wants it to be like a man; not necessarily male, but like a man. If that makes sense...In nature itself, there's yin and yang, there's masculine and feminine.
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Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.
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Alan Butcher is a Surrey man through and through.
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Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn’t control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could. That afternoon, I was just a boy. Not even close to being a man.
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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.
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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
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Woful was the proof that man, if unrestrained, if left to his own devices, is not merely incapable of recovering his innocence, but will rush madly down the steep of sensuousness and impious self-will until he finds himself engulphed in the abyss of perdition. The trial of freedom had failed: the second of the ages was ended.
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What, if as said, man is a bubble.
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Man is a god to his fellow-man, if he know his duty.
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history.
