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He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man's billfold.
Kurt Vonnegut
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
W. R. [William Ralph] Inge
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
Steve Jobs
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln
A man is known by the company he organizes.
Ambrose Bierce
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
Eliza Farnham
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle
Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.
C.S. Lewis
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature...
George Eliot
The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.
Two things instruct man about his whole nature; instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Voltaire
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
