Man Quotes
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
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If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
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Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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When I look at my body, I'm like, 'I'm a lead of a TV show?' To have a man in the business say, 'Come along just as you are,' is really an incredible thing.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
