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Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?
If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.
When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.
All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.
It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.
The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]
Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.
It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.
A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public
When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!
Man, if it weren't for Bill's Records and Tapes I would've been an accountant like my dad. I love my dad, but thank God for Bill's.
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.
The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.
You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself.
All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.
Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.
The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.