Quotes 241 till 260 of 490.
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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
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Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
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Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.
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Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
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My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
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My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
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My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
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