Quotes 3921 till 3940 of 4652.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
a man, inching across it in the space
between our thoughts. He holds our breath. There is no word net. You want him to fall, don't you?
I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
The word applause is written all over him.Source: Standing Female Nude (1985) -
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
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This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
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Those guys were in hog heaven, man. They had a weapons catalog, What's G-12 do, Tommy? Says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth, helps pay for the war effort. Well, shit, pull that one up! Pull up G-12, please. ] ...Cool. What's G-13 do?
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Those minute critics who seem to think that when they detect the occasional errors of a great man, they in some degree reduce him to their own level.
Source: History of civilization II, 314 -
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
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Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
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Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis ''good works'' make the man.
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Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
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