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.
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.
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.
Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income — which he then spends sending his son to college.
Let no such man be trusted.
I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair.
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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