Man Quotes
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He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
Aristotle
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How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
Ferdowsi
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.
Raekwon
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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
Nancy Gibbs
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
Jack Kevorkian
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Edmund White
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
Harold Brodkey
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We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
Eden Phillpotts
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
Adam Green
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The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
Frances Wright
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If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.
Viktor E. Frankl
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
E. B. White
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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
George Bernard Shaw
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
Kailash Kher
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No one man is superior to the game.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
Ralph Steadman
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
Jack Levine
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You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
Ilka Chase