Man Quotes
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Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
Honore de Balzac
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You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S Truman
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
Ezra Pound
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You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
Victor Hugo
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.
Clarence Day
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
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At sunset when you pray to God, say over and over that each man is a brother and that all men are equal.
Ahmed Sekou Toure
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A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters.
Charlotte Charke
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It was man who first made men believe in gods.
Critias
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'You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're a brave, compassionate, kind and content, man. That's your secret—contentment. I'm 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit and I don't even know what it is I'm chasing.
Colin Welland
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
Sophocles
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The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.
George Mikes
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Jesus wanted the man to have the peace that his heart longed for, but the man could not have it because he was living for himself.
J. M. Roberts
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Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
William Faulkner
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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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I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
George Eliot
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Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
Thomas Carlyle
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All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.
Sigrid Undset
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I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
George Washington
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For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.
Plutarch