- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
- Fat Man
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- Nov 07, 2020