Man Quotes
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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.
K. J. Bishop
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When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.
Alan Redpath
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The man is United - cut him and he bleeds red.
Alan Brazil
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AWWW ON THE MAIL. The mail man delivers, once again!
Charlie Flynn
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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.
Craig Davidson
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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.
Mircea Eliade
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Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The man of the past.
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
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If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
Paul Gallico
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Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.
Emil Cioran
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope
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Emotions are the most toxic substances known to man...
Brian Masters
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If man were never to fade away... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.
Kenko Yoshida
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That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.
Albert Einstein
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Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
Blaise Pascal
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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
William Blake
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
James Boswell
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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
Mahatma Gandhi
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A man’s character, she reflected with surprise, consists a good deal more of the way people feel and behave towards him than of the way he himself feels and behaves.
Celia Fremlin
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Socrates