Quotes with man-eating

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  • James Lendall Basford The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
    Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882)
    James Lendall Basford
    American aphorist (1845 - 1915)
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  • William Faulkner The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Voltaire The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Confucius The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Confucius The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Confucius The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Confucius The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Sigmund Freud The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Napoleon Hill The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ezra Pound There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Joseph Addison To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Valerie Solanas To be sure he's a ''Man,'' the male must see to it that the female be clearly a ''Woman,'' the opposite of a ''Man,'' that is, the female must act like a faggot.
    Valerie Solanas
    American feminist and author (1936 - 1988)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Valerie Solanas To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.
    Valerie Solanas
    American feminist and author (1936 - 1988)
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  • Ben Jonson To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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