Man Quotes
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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
George Bernard Shaw
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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
Joseph Conrad
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Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Me personally as a man is nothing without the inspiration of JAH...
Bob Marley
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The man, to me, ... is a legend.
Eddie George
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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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The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.
George Mikes
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A man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.
Carol Grace
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
Jonathan Swift
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
Euripides
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A man you can bait with a Tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.
Hillary Clinton
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No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
Thomas Hobbes
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Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
Abraham Lincoln
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Man believes he has will: this is his illusion.
Alfred Richard Orage
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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
George Bernard Shaw
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“Each man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Appius Claudius Caecus
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado
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I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
Albert Einstein
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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make...
George Bernard Shaw