Man Quotes
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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
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Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
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When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.
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Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.
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The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.
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And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.
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Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
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I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.
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Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
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The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.
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“The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.”
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Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?” she asked, tears shining in her eyes. “Power over you, little one,” he said, smiling. “What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.
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Man when not stimulated by hope or necessity is naturally a lazy animal.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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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.
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A man with no imaginations has no wings.
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My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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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.
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Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to
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I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.
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A fool is any man who doesn’t think he’s a fool.
