Man Quotes
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I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
Wallace Shawn
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Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
Lena Horne
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
Octavio Paz
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Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.
Samantha Harvey
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher
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No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Karl Barth
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She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
W. L. George
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
Larry David
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I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
Cameron Diaz
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Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Busy as a one-armed man with the nettle-rash pasting on wallpaper.
O. Henry
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
Irene Dunne
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May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.
Socrates
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The best thing a man can have, in my view, is health.
Epicharmus of Kos
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A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
Rachel Cusk
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
Vance Packard
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
Samuel Butler
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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
Honore de Balzac
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken
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And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.
Otto Schily
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A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.
Vicki Baum
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
Harper Lee
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson