Quotes 2961 till 2980 of 4603.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
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Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
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Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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