Quotes with man-being

Quotes 3241 till 3260 of 6261.

  • Anthony Eden Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
    Anthony Eden
    British politician (1897 - 1977)
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  • William Ewart Gladstone Man should beware of letting his religion spoil his morality.
    The Life of William Ewart Gladstone II, 185
    William Ewart Gladstone
    British statesman (1809 - 1898)
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  • Thomas De Quincey Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Henry Miller Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now...
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Albert Einstein Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Abraham Myerson Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
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  • Albert Camus Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Henry Wheeler Shaw Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since.
    Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Ralph Ransom Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • William Blackstone Man was formed for society.
    Of the Nature of Laws in General
    William Blackstone
    English lawyer, judge and Tory politician (1723 - 1780)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Mark Twain Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man was nature's mistake - she neglected to finish him - and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Conor Cruise O'Brien Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Doris Lessing Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Confucius Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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