Man Quotes
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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And at the last, a war between magic and science that would leave the world in ashes. At the center of all this were a man and a woman, who were still children now.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more.
Michael Faraday
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I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.
Renato Dulbecco
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A man with no imaginations has no wings.
Muhammad Ali
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
George Bernard Shaw
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A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven Brust
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
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Loving a film is like falling in love with a woman or with a man like you never expect it. It it's not the one you think you will be in love with, you know. You think always that he will be with a beard, and black, and big and finally he's Chinese and you know it's the same thing. There's something very organic about the film and if you forgot it, if you don't have this seed in it...this organic flavor in it the film doesn't work it's wrong.
Luc Besson
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Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
Thomas Carlyle
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A man. A dead man. A dead man with no arms.
David Wellington
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.
Jack White The White Stripes
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
Will Durant
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Every man born of woman has problems.
Elizabeth Kata
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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man.
Thomas Carlyle
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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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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
Plato
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There have been so many times over the years where people have said "Man, I thought I was just coming to this deal to get a little handier with my horse" and I'll say "Well, in the beginning, I thought that's all you were coming for too. But it turns out it's about something else."
Buck Brannaman
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I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
Donald Miller
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...
William Faulkner
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What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.
Rumi
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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