Man Quotes
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Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Tempt not a desperate man.
William Shakespeare
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A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.
Confucius
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A man is a phoenix, who must be reborn from his own ashes, for there is no other like him in the universe. If the wind stirs the ashes into a clumsy parody, then the phoenix is dead forever. Nothing we know of can bring you back.
Algis Budrys
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
James Boswell
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
Gaston Bachelard
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You don't have a man, you need spaghetti.
Oprah Winfrey
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
Robert Frost
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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
George Bernard Shaw
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Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.
Albert Einstein
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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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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
Hermann Hesse
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A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.
Malcolm Cowley
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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Thomas Aquinas
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I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.
Agesilaus II
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Last tour I met a man with my face tattooed on his arm – which was wild.
Bright Light Bright Light
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Music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.
Joseph Stalin
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
Euripides
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Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.
Neel Burton
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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him.
Ina May Gaskin
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.
Arlene Dahl