Man Quotes
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
Herodotus
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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
Albert Camus
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
Alexandre Dumas
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You can't hunt a man if he's searching for you
Conn Iggulden
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
Hippocrates
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Why do the sacraments exist? They are a means of healing. The sacraments are not a means of discipline, but a help for man on his life’s journey and in the weak moments of his life.
Carlo Maria Martini
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Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!
Wilder Penfield
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
Blaise Pascal
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For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.
Euripides
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My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
Thomas Carlyle
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No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.
Napoleon Hill
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Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.
Jules Michelet
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Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.
Nicholas Eberstadt
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The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
Philip James Bailey
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She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.
Jane Austen
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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.
Plato
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Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.
Evan Esar
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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE unabashed Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
George Bernard Shaw
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The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman...
Hattie McDaniel
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So much of 'Mudbound' is about man's relationship to the land and to the elements. It's about the desire for control and how powerless we are against nature. We always knew we would shoot widescreen as a means to isolate a body in the frame and to highlight our own insignificance.
Rachel Morrison
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner
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No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.
Alasdair Gray
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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.
Henry Ward Beecher