Man Quotes
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We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution.
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One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and you make love to the prettiest bridesmaid. Usually standing from behind.
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Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
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I believe I am an honorable man.
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It is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
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A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
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You can just fight one man at a time.
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The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
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The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
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No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.
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No man need stay the way he is.
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Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.
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If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.
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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.
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The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.
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The style is the man himself.
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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
