Quotes with man-being

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  • Ambrose Bierce Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Albert Camus Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Andre Breton Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Frank Zappa Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Oscar Wilde Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Denis Diderot Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Benjamin Tillett God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
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  • Helen Keller God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Thomas Fuller God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Thomas Fuller Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Fuller He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • William Shakespeare He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Simone Weil Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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