Man
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
No man is infallible.
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell their friends, 'Hey man, have you heard this song?' then I don't think it's worth it. The only way to get your music out there, is for someone to tell their friends about it.
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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