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Man Quotes
"Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality."
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"Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man."
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"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."
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"Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy."
Man,
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"The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men."
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"I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most."
Man,
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"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
Man,
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"In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave."
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"I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays."
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"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."
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"The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men."
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"I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world."
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"And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases."
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"The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout."
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"If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election."
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"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."
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"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
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"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."
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"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."
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"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven."
Man,
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"I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night."
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"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage."
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"I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest."
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"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
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"The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes."
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"A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie."
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