Man Quotes
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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.
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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 normal man is one who has not only actualized his potentialities but has freed himself from his subjectivity.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
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Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
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Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them.
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A man with a soul is not like every other 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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Because you are a great lord, you think you are a great genius! . . . Nobility, wealth ... You went to the trouble of being born—nothing more! For the rest—a very ordinary man!
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I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.
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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 superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
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Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
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It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
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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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Man is a god to his fellow-man, if he know his duty.
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...the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.
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I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
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The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
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A man growing old becomes a child again.
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Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.
