Man Quotes
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.
