Man Quotes
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-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.
Erich Maria Remarque
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
Herodotus
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Two grand slams in a week - man, that's seven or eight ribbies right there.
Bill Madlock
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
Thomas A. Edison
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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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I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide.
Bill Duke
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A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.
Stephen Pagliuca
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I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.
Cate Blanchett
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.
William Blake
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The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
Norman Angell
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I think it's great that you have inspirational female roles, that it's not just the pretty girl on the arm of a man.
Hannah John-Kamen
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.
Elizabeth Wein
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Honore de Balzac
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The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
George Dana Boardman Pepper
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As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.
Albert Einstein
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A man must always have the final choice in life and in death. Anything else can be taken from him, but never that.
Conn Iggulden
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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice...
George Bernard Shaw
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Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman.
Lao Tzu