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.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.
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.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
No man is infallible.
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.
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.
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.
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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