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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate… — Antonin Artaud
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people… — Isaac Asimov
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes… — Marcel Achard
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet… — Francis of Assisi
You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. — Rowan Atkinson
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms… — David Attenborough
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the… — Wystan Hugh Auden
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no… — John James Audubon
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of… — John James Audubon
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? — Saint Augustine
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some… — Saint Augustine
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are… — Saint Augustine
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius

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