Quotes with man-being

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  • Bobby Keys We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.
    Bobby Keys
    American saxophonist (1943 - 2014)
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  • George Steiner We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Chief Seattle We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Mark Twain We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Harry S. Truman We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Napoleon We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Amy Vanderbilt We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
    Amy Vanderbilt
    American author, authority on etiquette (1908 - 1974)
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  • Abraham Flexner We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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  • Graham Greene We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Carly Fiorina We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Mark Twain We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej We need to inspire and give each other confidence so that the work we do will be fruitful for the well-being of the people and the stability and security of the country.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Charles F. Kettering We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Bob Brown We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Bernard Lown We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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