Man Quotes
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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.
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Every man needs a place to go to.
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Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
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What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
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John Gotti was an incredible man and I know he would have been impressed by the hundreds of people who turned out to pay their respects.
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A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
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But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?
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...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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Man believes and lives.
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking.
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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.
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We were a duo on tour, but it was his music and his songs. I was kind of his Vanna White/singing partner/torch-song singer. I was the straight man to his funny man.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
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If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.
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I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.
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It was a movie [The Railway Man] that stayed with me a long time. It's still one of the things I'm most proud of. I got to know the man that I was playing and unfortunately he passed away just before the movie came out. It's one that meant a huge amount to me, and one that I'm particularly proud of.
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
