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Man Quotes
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."
Man,
40
"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."
39
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."
39
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
38
"A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing."
38
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
37
"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood."
37
"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward."
Man,
36
"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man."
Man,
36
"O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out."
36
"Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world."
36
"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot."
35
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
34
"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another."
Man,
34
"Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse."
34
"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."
33
"A man without a vote is man without protection."
33
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
32
"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."
32
"Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear."
32
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
Man,
32
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