Man
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
A man's kiss is his signature.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God — by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
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