Man Quotes
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For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
Hans Jonas
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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
Barbra Streisand
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O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
Baha'u'llah
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Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.
Aarti Mann
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust
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The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
Carine Roitfeld
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
Garrett Hardin
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
T. J. Miller
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Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.
Nicolas Winding Refn
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
Barack Obama
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
Mae West
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
Larry McMurtry
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Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
Rachel Stevens
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As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psychologist, though, I feel a responsibility to bring evidence to bear on dynamics of work life that affect all of us, not only half of us.
Adam Grant
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
Mae West
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My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.
Orison Swett Marden
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
Mae West