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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers ...

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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His vie...

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There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You liv...

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Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a fir...

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The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinki...

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Luke’s not a bad man, or even an unlikable one,” she went on. “Just a man. You’re all the same, grea...

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How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You...

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The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments o...

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The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact th...

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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

The object of the superior man is truth.

For this reason the gentleman will employ a man on a distant mission and observe his degree of loyal...

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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or ind...

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Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy ...

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If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.

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Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian

Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...

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My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up i...

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I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is...

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It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power ...

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You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about...

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If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!

Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken.Infal...

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The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when th...

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Craig FergusonBetween the Bridge and the River

His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart to...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes...

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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution o...

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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of...

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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping ...

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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the w...

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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or ...

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Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so ...

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Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a baby-face, a...

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On revient toujours a son premier amour." It sounds like a cynicism to-day. As if we really meant: "...

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D. H. LawrenceFantasia of the Unconscious

She was only really a female to him.But perhaps that was better. And after all, he was kind to the f...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover:

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing t...

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The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, fr...

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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages a...

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Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men."--Charlie Gordan

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Daniel KeyesFlowers for Algernon

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage...

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Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions...

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I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient...

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The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is tryi...

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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the ...

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Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

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David HumeAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct refere...

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David HumeAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a ma...

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Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irres...

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Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and pass...

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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has fait...

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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are o...

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When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' e...

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My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know...

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I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of...

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She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and...

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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the AN...

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They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independen...

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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows...

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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing oth...

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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiratio...

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Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as e...

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

it wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man w...

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You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy,...

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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is...

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Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard fo...

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I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the c...

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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation...

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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almos...

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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the f...

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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought t...

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Character is what a man is in the dark.

Character is what a man is in the dark

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-clean...

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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.