Quotes with man-knowledge

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  • Thomas Carlyle Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Desmond Tutu Show me where Christ said "Love thy fellow man, except for the gay ones." Gay people, too, are made in my God's image. I would never worship a homophobic God.
    Source: Washington Post, 12 March 2010
    Desmond Tutu
    South African cleric and human rights activist (1931 - 2021)
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  • H. L. Wayland Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.
    H. L. Wayland
     
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  • Aaron Hill Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself - for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Lord George Byron Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Henry Miller Sin, guilt, neurosis -they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Dryden Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • John Holt Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
    John Holt
    American author and educator (1923 - 1985)
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  • John Tillotson Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billy Joel Sing us a song you're the piano man Sing us a song tonight Well we're all in the mood for a melody And you've got us feeling alright.
    Source: The Piano Man (1973)
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Billie Holiday Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Art Buchwald So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Baruch Spinoza So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Laurence Sterne So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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