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"Man lives in a world of meaning."
George H. Mead
"Man lives in a world of meaning."
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"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher."
William Butler Yeats
"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher."
Man,
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"Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men."
Francis Picabia
"Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men."
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"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go."
Tom Hanks
"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go."
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"Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them."
Thucydides
"Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them."
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"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests."
George Santayana
"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests."
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"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man."
Norman Schwarzkopf
"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man."
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"Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility."
Walter Hill
"Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility."
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"Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect."
Algernon Sydney
"Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect."
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"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind."
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"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."
Bern Williams
"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."
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"If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours."
Clarence Day
"If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours."
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"In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience."
John Burns
"In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience."
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"It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic."
Michael Baden
"It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic."
Man,
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"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
Galileo Galilei
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
Man,
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"Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom."
Vita Sackville-West
"Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom."
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"I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery."
Benjamin F. Wade
"I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery."
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"But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys."
John Thorn
"But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys."
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"All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers."
Chief Joseph
"All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers."
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"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man."
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"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
Epicurus
"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
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"Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world."
Salvatore Quasimodo
"Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world."
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"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
Ansel Adams
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
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"Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something."
Eric Sevareid
"Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something."
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"A rich man can afford to be generous to many."
Mercedes McCambridge
"A rich man can afford to be generous to many."
Man,
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"A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to."
George Jean Nathan
"A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to."
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"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."
John Locke
"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."
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"How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground."
J. D. Salinger
"How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground."
Man,
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"Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit."
Bodhidharma
"Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit."
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"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."
Herodotus
"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."
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"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."
George S. Patton
"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."
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"Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom."
L. Neil Smith
"Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom."
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"Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created."
Jacob Bronowski
"Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created."
Man,
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"Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers."
Caleb Cushing
"Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers."
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"Men and women have strengths that complement each other."
Edwin Louis Cole
"Men and women have strengths that complement each other."
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"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."
Pearl S. Buck
"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."
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"I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men."
Magic Johnson
"I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men."
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"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
George S. Patton
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
Man,
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"The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility."
Georges Bataille
"The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility."
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"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."
Claude Levi-Strauss
"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."
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"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."
Lawrence Durrell
"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."
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"A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth."
Stendhal
"A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth."
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"Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there."
Robert Grosseteste
"Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there."
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"I'm a very, very stubborn man."
Dave Van Ronk
"I'm a very, very stubborn man."
Man,
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"I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'"
Milo Ventimiglia
"I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'"
Man,
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"I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink."
George Jean Nathan
"I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink."
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"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name."
Dylan Thomas
"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name."
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"No man is so great as mankind."
Theodore Parker
"No man is so great as mankind."
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"Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants."
William Penn
"Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants."
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"We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on."
Robert Benchley
"We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on."
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