Man Quotes
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There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.
George Eliot
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I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.
Alain Bombard
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
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The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man.
Nikki Grimes
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
Thomas A. Edison
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A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
George Eliot
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I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.
George Rickey
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Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness).
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.
Tracy Reese
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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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I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.
Gerard Depardieu
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I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
George Bernard Shaw
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There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
Aristotle
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To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
Homer
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Man begets, but land does not beget.
Cecil Rhodes