Quotes with man-being

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  • Thomas Paine Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • John Dryden Beware the fury of a patient man.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Bernard Shaw But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Butler Yeats But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Lewis Mumford By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Charles Wadsworth By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Aristotle Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ann Landers Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Mark Twain Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Einstein Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Addison Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Oscar Wilde Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Stokes Despite the litany of the sorrows of the city, we must believe in the ability of man to respond to the problems of his environment.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • Albert Pike Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Charles Kingsley Each man can learn something from his neighbour, at least he can learn this, to have patience with his neighbour, to live and let live.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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