Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Joseph Conrad A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bernard Malamud A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all a loneliness and men know it best.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • E. B. White A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Richard Nixon A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Victor Hugo A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • John Banville A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Jean Rostand A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • James Allen A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • William Frederick Book A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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  • William Frederick Book A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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  • William Feather A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Havelock Ellis A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Herbert A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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