Quotes with man-being

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  • Abdul Kalam A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Bayard Taylor A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Benjamin Rush A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Harry S. Truman A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Georges Bernanos A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Winston Churchill A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bertrand Russell A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Robert Byrne A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • C. S. Lewis A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Richard Nixon A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Edward Noyes Westcott A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog - keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
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  • Alfred Nobel A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • W. C. Fields A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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