Man Quotes
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A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.
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A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
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The biggest man you're ever going to see was once a baby.
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I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.
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Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
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The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.
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The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.
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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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Ultimately, no man or woman is happy unless they have found a way to contribute beyond themselves.
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Every man lives at swordspoint.
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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
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Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.
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I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.
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Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
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To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
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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.
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Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.
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While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.
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You act like a man, I'll treat you like a man.
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A man is nothing but breath and shadow.
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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.
