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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Petrarch
I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better.
George Carlin
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
John D. Rockefeller
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Ezra Pound
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James Anthony Froude
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
Yves Saint-Laurent
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
Jean Anouilh
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Margaret Mead
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
Norman Mailer
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