Quotes with man-being

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  • Carroll Quigley The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
    Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • D.B.C. Pierre The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
    Source: Vernon God Little
    D.B.C. Pierre
    Australian writer (ps. by Peter Warren Finlay) (1961 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bob Greene The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.
    Bob Greene
    American journalist and author (1947 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ben Stein The prosecutors say that Mr. Strauss-Kahn forced the complainant to have oral and other sex with him. How? Did he have a gun? Did he have a knife? He's a short fat old man.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Brendan Francis The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • F. L. Lucan The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.
    F. L. Lucan
    Roman epic poet (39 - 65)
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  • Fulton J. Sheen The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
    Fulton J. Sheen
    American bishop (1895 - 1979)
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  • Harold Rosenberg The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Gloria Steinem The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The purpose of man is in action not thought.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry Ford The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • John Paul II The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Carl Van Doren The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Margaret Drabble The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Lin-Chi The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.
    Lin-Chi
     
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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
    British painter (1723 - 1792)
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  • Allan Bloom The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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