Quotes with man-being

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  • Bill McKibben These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
    Source: Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Charles Dickens They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • John Morley They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Virgil They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Albert Einstein They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Aldous Huxley They failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • C. S. Forester They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Wallace Stevens They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • William Shakespeare They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • A. E. Housman They say my verse is sad: no wonder.
    Its narrow measure spans
    Rue for eternity, and sorrow
    Not mine, but man's.

    This is for all ill-treated fellows
    Unborn and unbegot,
    For them to read when they're in trouble
    And I am not.
    Source: More Poems (1936)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Carl Hubbell They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Benjamin Franklin They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Anthony Trollope They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Buddy Rich They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Henri-Louis Bergson Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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  • William Butler Yeats Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • William Butler Yeats Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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