Quotes 2301 till 2320 of 4355.
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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
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Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
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Man's life is like unto a winter's day, Some break their fast and so depart away, Others stay dinner then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. Oh, reader, then behold and see, As we are now so must you be.
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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
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Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.
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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.
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Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
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