Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Arthur Middleton The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Marcel Duchamp The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Bruno Rossi The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
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  • William Blake The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Butler Yeats The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • George Orwell The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ed Parker The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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  • Anna Quindlen The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edward Coke The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
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    Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge and politician (1552 - 1634)
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  • Augustus William Hare The king is the least independent man in his dominions; the beggar the most so.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The king is the man who can.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lord George Byron The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Booker T. Washington The last I heard of the young man in question, he was trying to eke out a miserable existence as a book agent while he was looking about for a position somewhere with the Government as a janitor or for some other equally humble occupation.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • James Thurber The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abraham Cowley The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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