Quotes 3181 till 3200 of 4583.
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The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''
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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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The difference between a good man and a bad is the choice of the cause.
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
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The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
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The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after man.
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
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The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
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