Quotes 2981 till 3000 of 4652.
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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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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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