Quotes with man-being

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  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    American retired professional basketball player (1947 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • B. Joweit One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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  • Andrew Jackson One man with courage makes a majority.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Alan Perlis One man's constant is another man's variable.
    Alan Perlis
    American computer scientist and professor (1922 - 1990)
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  • Helen Rowland One man's folly is often another man's wife.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ogden Nash One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Harold Wilson One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
    Harold Wilson
    British Labour politician (1916 - 1995)
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  • Brock Lesnar One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For me, when I got in the ring, I approached it as being real because I was a real character. I didn't have a gimmick name; I didn't have a gimmick finish.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Ezra Pound One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Jean Cocteau One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Georg Groddeck One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
    Georg Groddeck
    German physician, founder of psychosomatics (1866 - 1934)
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  • May Sarton One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
    Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Josh Billings One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • A. A. Milne One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Groucho Marx One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Butler One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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