Quotes 3481 till 3500 of 4583.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
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The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
Rick Moody (2007) 284 -
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.
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The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
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The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
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The people know the salt of the sea
and the strength of the winds
lashing the corners of the earth.
The people take the earth
as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
Who else speaks for the Family of Man?The People, Yes (1936) -
The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
Storage and Stability Part V, Ch. XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition, -
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Once Around the Sun (1951)
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