Man Quotes
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
Jules Verne
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I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!
Victor Hugo
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
John Locke Nazareth
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Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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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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There's not a man in here who doesn't realize Johnny Damon makes us go. He's very important to us.
Gabe Kapler
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The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.
Jane Austen
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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.
Sophocles
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If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
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To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
Asger Jorn
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius
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There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.
Barack Obama
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A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man – his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.
Octave Feuillet
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Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.
Eric Burns
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Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his own limitations.
J. M. Roberts
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Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
Sophocles
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
Abraham Lincoln
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One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.
Yagyu Munenori
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There is no such thing as a fallen woman - you just need to look for the man who pushed her.
Courtney Milan