Man Quotes
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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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Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.
Immanuel Kant
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When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
Diogenes
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Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.
Arthur Desmond
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A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.
Sophocles
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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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Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.
Amy Vanderbilt
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Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.
William Blake
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I never killed a man who didn't need it.
Clay Allison
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Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Prospecting - Find the man with the problem.
Benjamin M. Friedman
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Is a man less of a man, because he's learned to hold his tongue?
Elizabeth Goudge
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A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
George Bernard Shaw
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I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.
Steve Southerland
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A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
Jose Ferrer
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Father was a good driver and enjoyed driving, but the sight of a female in charge of a vehicle was sometimes too much for him. If a car came to close or made the smallest mistake with the rules of the road he shouted, "blasted woman driver", to which my mother was often able to say, with truth, "Funny thing, she's dressed as a man."
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Albert Einstein
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In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.
Conn Iggulden
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If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway