Man Quotes
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Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.
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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
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There was no justice in the world, but he had known that ever since the death of his father. The spirits took no part in the lives of men once they had been born. A man either endured what the world sent his way, or was crushed.
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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.
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The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
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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.
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They say a man can change his personality—the basic essence of who or what he is—by five percent. Five percent: the total change any one of us is capable of.
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Mind the dead man, my dear.
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.
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Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. … You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.
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The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
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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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To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.
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A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.
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The thing about Matt Cameron is he has made us 1000 times a better band than we've ever been. He's such a freight train on drums and such a cool individual as a man that it makes us better as a band, and we are now complete with him.
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
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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!
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When a man may whisper in a close ear, and that whisper be repeated far away and many moons later, then he has power. When a many may speak against another, and that other be brought to ruin and rue by nothing more than those words, then he has power. And if a man can act without the appearance of action, and bring about great change without the appearance of desiring it, then he has power.
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I am kind of a man of mystery. I like not being in the spotlight. I kind of like being in the background. I like to observe a lot of things. Nothing really rattles me so I don’t stress very much about a lot of things. I have that Buddha mentality.
