Quotes with man-being

Quotes 5461 till 5480 of 6261.

  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Charles Simmons True greatness consists in being great in little things.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Napoleon True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Mark Twain True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Larry Mcmurtry True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends - and he accepts it.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Francis H. Bradley True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Alexander Pope True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Akhenaton True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Bill Shorten Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • René Daumal Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bayard Taylor Twas glory once to be a Roman; She makes it glory, now, to be a man.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • B. F. Skinner Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Bill Keller Twitter and Facebook are brilliant tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bill Ayers Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet -a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • E. M. Cioran Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Norman Mailer Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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