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" Quotes and Sayings About man

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Man Goal Animal Goal
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Man is by nature a political animal.
Man Nature Political Animal
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Demand Special Gift Touch
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Beauty Soul After Feel
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Between Ignorant Living Corpse
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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

Courage Quality Human Right
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Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
Man Himself Accept Negative
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“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.”

Power Grow Over Except
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Ideal Bear Dignity Grace
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Express Common Wise People
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Not doing what we love in the name of greed is the very poor management of our lives.

Love Greed Poor Management
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong

Life Things Right Wrong
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If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

Luckiest Humanity Percent Owe
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I measure success by how many people love me.
Measure Success People Love
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Praise Person Moment Length
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When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

Portions Business Outstanding Management
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Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.

Someone Romantic Market Investor
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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word selected: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

Competence Boundary Ability Investor
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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: ‘Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth.’

Stock Wealth Woman Commodity
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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Business Reputation Management Brilliance
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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Accounting Economics Management Appearance
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I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Never Hated Enough Diamonds
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
Being Jealous Beautiful Woman
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and

Language Married Nationality Dictionary
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

Independent Marry Rich Poor
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

Diamond Dog Sex Friend
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
Woman Amusing Diet Time
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

House Time Keep Marvelous
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Love Divorce Married Man
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

Bills Choose Want Man
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Man Good Enough Memory
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.

Human Action Extend Nature
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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, descend the many memories of pain.
Vision Night Descend Pain
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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Man Love Incomplete Married
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You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
You Really Man Divorce
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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.

Man Muscle Talk Like
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Common People Best Reason
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When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

Black Mortal Blood Ground
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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Rather Silence Wise Tongue
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Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

Unjustly Hate Death Against
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Man You Random Honor
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I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

Like Man Know Better
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I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Own Being Purge Schooled
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The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

Gaze Young Escape Mark
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Can Stand Test Power
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Been Wisdom Driven Overwhelming
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I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

Large Family Woman Husband
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
Love Man Marry Feather
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What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.

Important Woman Beautiful Entertaining
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