Man Quotes
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
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This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind - the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake - the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism - how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.
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To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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I believe that Bitcoin is going to change the way that everything works. I want entrepreneurs to tell me how its going to change. Build the equivalent of an Iron Man suit with Bitcoin.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.
