Man Quotes
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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
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A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master. Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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I was like, man, I love this. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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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.
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If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'
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Two grand slams in a week - man, that's seven or eight ribbies right there.
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I never killed a man who didn't need it.
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A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.
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When is a man free? Now when he is driftwood on the stream of life... free of all cares or worries or ambitions... He is not free at all... To be free in action, in struggle, in undiverted and purposeful achievement, to move forward towards a worthy objective across a fierce terrain of resistance, to be vital and allow in the exercise of a great enterprise - that is to be free, and to know the joy and exhilaration of true freedom. A man is free only when he has an errand on earth.
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The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
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What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.
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He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.
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I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
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A man who makes no enemies is never a positive force.
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Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.
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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.
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My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
