Quotes with man-being

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  • Henry Ward Beecher In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Pythagoras In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • A. N. Wilson In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • George Robert Gissing In youth one marvels that man remains at so low a stage of civilisation, in later life one marvels that he has got so far.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • A. J. Liebling Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
    The New Yorker, March 28, 1953, quoted in David Remnick, Reporting It All: A.J. Liebling at 100, The New Yorker, March 29, 2004
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Baba Kalyani Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bliss Carman Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Aldous Huxley Industrial man -a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Olin Miller Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
    Olin Miller
    American businessman
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  • Victor Hugo Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Vernon Howard Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
    Vernon Howard
    Swiss actor (1918 - 1992)
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  • B. Carroll Reece Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Albert Camus Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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