Quotes with man-being

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  • Joseph De Maistre It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Vance Havner It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Benazir Bhutto It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
    As quoted in I never asked for power in The Guardian (15 August 2002)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill Shuster It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Plutarch It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Boris Johnson It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Anna Held It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • George F. Will It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, ''No wise man ever wished to be younger.''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
    The Man Nobody Knows (1924) Ch. 4 : His Method
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Gurdjieff It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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