Quotes with man-being

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  • Alan Paton What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Hermann Hesse What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Samuel Beckett What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Edmund Burke What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Napoleon Hill What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • William James What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise - although the philosophers generally call it ''recognition''!
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Aeschylus What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Boris Pasternak What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Archibald Macleish What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Edward Dahlberg What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard What I do is not go outside. My hobby is that I write, so if I'm not acting or being a mom, I'm writing.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Billy Martin What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.
    Billy Martin
    American Major League Baseball player and manager (1928 - )
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  • Abbe Pierre What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Carolyn See What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Oscar Wilde What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Albert Camus What is a rebel? A man who says no.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Salvador Dali What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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