Quotes with man-being

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  • Wallace Stevens The imagination is man's power over nature.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • John Keats The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Beth Henley The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Nelson Algren The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Arthur Middleton The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Marcel Duchamp The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Bruno Rossi The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
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  • William Blake The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Betty Cuthbert The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.
    Betty Cuthbert
    Australian athlete (1938 - 2017)
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  • William Butler Yeats The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • George Orwell The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ed Parker The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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  • Thomas à Kempis The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Anna Quindlen The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Erich Fromm The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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