For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
Hans Jonas
NatureManPossibleHimDetermined
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
Jerome K. Jerome
ManWearConceitFinestArmour
When it comes to representing the WWE, I don't like calling myself the 'face of WWE' because we have so many faces and so many superstars. We are a team, we're a roster, and we're a locker room. It absolutely takes every man to make this ship sail.
Roman Reigns
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Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.
Tippi Hedren
WorkFunnyGetting OlderManSerious
I grew up in a household where I learned five things from my old man. You know what they were? You're no good. You're a failure. You're not going to amount to anything. Don't trust nobody, and don't tell nobody your business. When I lost to Larry Holmes in 1982, I felt all five of those things smacked me right across the face.
Gerry Cooney
FailureGoodBusinessTrustManMe
Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
Walter Huston
GoodSonManOld ManYouSaid
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
John Masefield
CommunityManPoetryBecomePrinting
I'm a free spirit, so if I am with someone it has to be a man who understands that, and not all men do.
Marisa Berenson
MenManI AmFreeSomeoneSpirit
I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
Sam Smith
LifeManMy LifeGayNothingOut
Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.
Michael Eric Dyson
TodayManEmpathyYouthWorldDeep
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
Olive Schreiner
MotherGreatManGreat ManNever
I am not a normal man.
Stevie Wonder
ManI AmNormalAm
I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.
James Salter
HopeManI AmExpectationsSayLike
A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
Frank Moore Colby
ManPeopleThoughtNewKnowThinker
How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. Salinger
ManEnoughLongLegsTouchGround
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
ManThinkingPoliticalDividedWord
The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.
Rita Rudner
TimeManYouNeverHimOver
My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.
Thurgood Marshall
FatherManHouseWithoutCastleHe
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Henry David Thoreau
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew Jackson
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I am part of a circuit called 24 Hours of LeMons, where it's a sort of riff on 24 Hours of Le Mans. It's a poor man's weekend warrior racer event.
Michael Trucco
ManI AmWeekendWarriorPoorWhere
My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.
Nicole Krauss
LifeManMemoryStartSelfCreate
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