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There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the ...

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Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

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David HumeAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct refere...

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David HumeAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a ma...

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Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irres...

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Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and pass...

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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has fait...

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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are o...

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When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' e...

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My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know...

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I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of...

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She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and...

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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the AN...

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They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independen...

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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows...

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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing oth...

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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiratio...

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Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as e...

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

it wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man w...

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You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy,...

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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is...

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Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard fo...

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I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the c...

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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation...

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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almos...

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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the f...

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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought t...

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Character is what a man is in the dark.

Character is what a man is in the dark

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-clean...

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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviatha...

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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tr...

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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the ...

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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has ...

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the...

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what t...

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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth ma...

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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impul...

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Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man wh...

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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...

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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises ab...

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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creatio...

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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really need...

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I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West...

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Wasn’t it correct in America to call a man ‘handsome’ rather than ‘beautiful’?

You are the Perfect Young Man: honest, clean, virile.

It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. T...

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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' ca...

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In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to ma...

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Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers;...

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The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved...

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The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is...

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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...

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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

For me, Arik Sharon - I remember his courage and inspiration. I want to remember him the way he real...

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A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience w...

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the li...

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Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The ...

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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carp...

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No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the...

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the o...

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It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what ...

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I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame give me the man who living makes a name.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers...

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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopu...

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The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the ...

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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Every experience makes you a man.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes without religion he cannot know why.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, l...

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Eric HofferReflections on the Human Condition

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.