Quotes with man-being

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  • Sir Walter Scott 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Betty Ford ... a woman... told us she was forever getting herself into trouble. But I just keep coming back, she said. I just keep showing up for my life. Showing up for life. Being blessed with the rebirth that recovery brings.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Billy Bush 100 million iphones don't lie. What an amazing man. He is the apple of all of our i's. We have an i everything and its all so amazing.
    Billy Bush
    American radio and television host (1971 - )
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  • Christopher Morley : One of the odd things about being in a hurry is that it seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Brendan Francis A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Samuel Butler A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Jean Rostand A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • John Steinbeck A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Gian Vincenzo Gravina A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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  • Bert Leston Taylor A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Robert Frost A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Aldous Huxley A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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