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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it - or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
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Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can't be bought.Source: The People Will Live On (1936) -
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
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Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
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Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
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Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
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Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
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Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
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Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
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Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
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Many can argue, not many converse.
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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
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Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
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Many financial disasters can be traced to people who thought they were hedging.
Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4
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