Man Quotes
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Government is only a scaffolding to build man; a temporary convenience, to secure order and justice, to vanish as we ascend into unison with ideas; the garment society wears to be refitted for larger life, or left behind for the next arrival in the cradle. The elements of growth and original sovereignty forever inhere in the people, and no government can be perpetual, any more than a coat can be perpetual.
Ezra Heywood
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
Mae West
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.
Fatema Mernissi
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
Victor Hugo
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
Beau Bridges
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
Cesare Pavese
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Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
Immanuel Kant
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
Babe Ruth
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Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.
Garth Brooks