Man Quotes
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Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
Epictetus
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Every man, who has fought in a battle, is now ash, every sword has been eaten by rust, but the lessons still must be learned
Conn Iggulden
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Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
William Faulkner
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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
Havelock Ellis
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When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there never was and never will be, who turn up their noses at the counsel that is given them from the First Presidency, but who, unless they repent of and refrain from such conduct will eventually go out of the Church and go to hell, every one of them...
Brigham Young
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But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.
George III
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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
Plato
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Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
Heraclitus
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If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
Gautama Buddha
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Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
Ada Leverson
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The style is the man himself.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?
Confucius
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Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.
John Ruskin
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Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
John Lennon The Beatles
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The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.
George Perkins Marsh
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When you get to the level that I'm at, often you are a very lonely man.
Paulo Dybala
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Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Virgil
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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
Euripides
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A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things.
Aliette de Bodard
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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.
August Weismann
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It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
George Eliot