Quotes with man-being

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  • Nelson Mandela Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
    Documentary Mandela (1994)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Adam Clarke Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • E. B. White Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Richard Nixon Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Aldous Huxley Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • James Russell Lowell Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Laurence J. Peter Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Bertrand Russell Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Samuel Johnson Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Desire is the essence of a man.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bobby Unser Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
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  • Aeschylus Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bruce Greenwood Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yeah! But you know, I did not jig with the man, if you know what I'm saying!
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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