The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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To most men t... SAMUEL BUTLER For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse ... QUEEN VICTORIA A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been out... NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been out... NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Sma... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" i... HENRY FORD No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at lea... NAPOLEON HILL I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintellig... J.R.R. TOLKIEN In the stern sat Aragon son of Arathorn, proud and erect, guiding the boat with skilful strokes; his... J.R.R. TOLKIEN If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man. This is a big statement and it so... WILLIAM SAROYAN The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. ALEXANDER SMITH There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and vari... MIYAMOTO MUSASHI I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. GIOVANI DELLA CASA Those who have loved God most, have loved man least ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not... MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE You mistake patience for forbearance. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Nature is precisely what separates man from God … [R]eligion believes that one day this wall of se... LUDWIG FEUERBACH A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a fr... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that tim... MARCUS AURELIUS The proper study of Mankind is Man. ALEXANDER POPE The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth... MARTIN LUTHER No man is to lower himself by showing tolerance towards any sort of heretic, least of all a Calvinis... CARDINAL CARAFFA Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is... CARL JUNG Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is... CARL GUSTAV JUNG Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is... C.G. JUNG It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object i... H.L. MENCKEN Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is the... BEN AZAI the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria—at least for the time being. The ... RICHARD ENGEL It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where th... THEODORE ROOSEVELT The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. AYN RAND The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it. AYN RAND The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha... C. JOYBELL C. If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man. WILLIAM SAROYAN There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the... RALPH MOODY Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wid... LEO TOLSTOY Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wid... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The m... SAMUEL GOLDWYN I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The... SAMUEL GOLDWYN Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful ... SANDER LEVIN Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and
any man who is over 30, and is no... CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not... WINSTON CHURCHILL I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamen... DAVID DEUTSCH And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
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CUTLER Reality television has borrowed so much from the world of politics, whether it's alliances or vo... R. J. CUTLER The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation... R. J. CUTLER No matter how much you've done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this pa... R. J. CUTLER I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind. R. J. CUTLER A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. T... J. R. POLE The wayside of business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt, and lacked the stamin... J. R. TODD I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; b... R. J. HOLLINGDALE It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to fac... J. R. MILLER The impatient may not always be wrong on issues, but they are almost always wrong in their attitudes... R. J. RUSHDOONY I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and... J. R. MARTINEZ I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now ... J. R. MARTINEZ Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal... J. R. MOEHRINGER In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the g... J. R. MOEHRINGER The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. Th... R. J. CUTLER I mostly play my dynasty or against someone in the hotel. I don't really like online games. I ca... J. R. SMITH Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You... J. R. SMITH How can we know that what Jesus has shown us of God is the truth; or how do we know when we look int... R. J. CAMPBELL Looking into my heart, which is perhaps the best way of looking into other men's, I know that the Sa... R. J. CAMPBELL It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, des... R. J. CAMPBELL When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that&... J. R. CELSKI There are no accidents, everything is planned. J. R. WHITEMAN El señor Traseronian miró al público. -"Más amables de lo necesario" - repitió -. Qué fra... PALACIO R. J. I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of ... J. R. SMITH Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my he... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and d... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN