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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. -- Charles Darwin
Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived. -- Sylvester Stallone
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. -- August Strindberg
Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say. -- Frederick Pollock
This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self. -- Jimmy Rushing
The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. -- Henry Miller
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
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life. -- Branford Marsalis
One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life. -- Morarji Desai
Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. -- Frederick William Robertson
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him. -- D. H. Lawrence
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life. -- Saint Ignatius
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man. -- David Bowie
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything. -- Oscar Micheaux
Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him. -- Oscar Wilde
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable. -- Leo Tolstoy
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. -- P. G. Wodehouse
But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not. -- Milan Kundera
And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength. -- Gautama Buddha
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. -- Oscar Wilde
To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it. -- Henry Latham Doherty
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. -- Edward Burgess Butler
The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? -- Samuel Johnson
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to intuitive knowledge of the Divine Ground. -- Aldous Huxley
If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been. -- Susan B. Anthony

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