Quotes with leading-man

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• Man has will, but woman has her way.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

  Sigmund Freud
  Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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• Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there

  Henry Vaughan
  Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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• Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

  Edward Dahlberg
  American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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• Man identifies himself with earth or material. Spirit is strange to him: he is afraid of ghosts.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

  Joseph De Maistre
  French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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• Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

  Lily Tomlin
  American Comedienne (1939 - )
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• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• Man is a being in search of meaning.

  Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

  Gaston Bachelard
  French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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• Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.

  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

  Charles Lamb
  English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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• Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

  G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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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.

  The People Will Live On (1936)

  Carl Sandburg
  American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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• Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

  G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

  The Zookeepers Wife (2008)

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• notwithstanding
• principally
• masterpiece
• determinism
• credulous
• something

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