Quotes with man-being

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  • John Ruskin Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Thomas Carlyle Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ayn Rand Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Napoleon Hill Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Adam Smith Man, an animal that makes bargains.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Elie Wiesel Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Lord George Byron Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lillian Smith Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Billy Bob Thornton Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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  • Louis Armstrong Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
    Louis Armstrong
    American trumpeter, composer and singer (1901 - 1971)
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  • Louis Armstrong Man, if you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know!
    Louis Armstrong
    American trumpeter, composer and singer (1901 - 1971)
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  • Adam Ferguson Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Albert Claude Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • William Shakespeare Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bono Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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