Man
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
A man's kiss is his signature.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
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.
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.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
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.
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
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.
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