Man
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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
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.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
No man is infallible.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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.
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.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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.
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.
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
