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If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.
Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.
It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half
Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man.
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.
The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
The man who invented Doritos has passed away at the age of 97. He asked to be buried with the creator of Fritos and Cheetos in a variety pack.
Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.
I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?
The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.
Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.
But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.
All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.
We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!
It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.
Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.
Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.
Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.
As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
Ladies, you wake up tomorrow and the newspaper reads Scientists have discovered a way for men to experience childbirth. That would be awesome.
It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.
Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.
So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!
It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant.
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.