Quotes with man-being

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  • Andre Breton I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active -not more happy -nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Graham Greene I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I start where the last man left off.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Bryan Robson I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Edgar Allan Poe If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Thomas Fuller If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Henry Ford It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Ford It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Simone Weil It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Ambrose Bierce It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Simone Weil It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Cameron Boyce Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
    Cameron Boyce
     
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  • Albert Schweitzer Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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