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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • John Burroughs A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Anita Brookner A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Marcus Aurelius A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anzia Yezierska A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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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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  • 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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  • George Gurdjieff A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Dean William R. Inge A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • John F. Kennedy A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Elmer G. Letterman A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.
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  • Stevie Smith A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
    Stevie Smith
    English poet and novelist (1902 - 1971)
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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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  • Joseph Addison A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Francis Thompson A man should be an individual, but not independent.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • Alexander Pope A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Sigmund Freud A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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