Quotes with man-eating

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  • André Gide Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Simone Weil Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Octavio Paz Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Ludwig Van Beethoven Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
    Ludwig Van Beethoven
    German composer (1770 - 1827)
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  • Paul Boese Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.
    Paul Boese
    American filmmaker
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Denis Diderot No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Bobby Scott Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • George Holbrook Jackson Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Result! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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