Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 4657.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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In the first two years this is a man who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn't those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?
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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
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In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
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In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
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In youth one marvels that man remains at so low a stage of civilisation, in later life one marvels that he has got so far.
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
Source: The New Yorker, March 28, 1953, quoted in David Remnick, Reporting It All: A.J. Liebling at 100, The New Yorker, March 29, 2004 -
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
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