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Born as the raising to the nth power of that initial (and rational) waste that is sports recreation, sports chatter is the glorification of Waste, and therefore the maximum point of Consumption. On it and in it the consumer civilization man actually consumes himself (and every possibility of thematizing and judging the enforced consumption to which his is invited and subjected). Umberto Eco
And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe. Leonardo da Vinci
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark Ayn Rand
Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl. Peter S. Beagle
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be..."
Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind. Robert A. Heinlein
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?"
Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate. Barack Obama
Nelson Mandela quote: "The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who..."
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela
James A. Michener quote: "I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What..."
I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick? James A. Michener
The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair and a beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry. J. K. Rowling
Ernest Hemingway quote: "I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said."
I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said. Ernest Hemingway
Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life? If life—the craving for which is the very essence of our... Arthur Schopenhauer
Oswald Chambers quote: "I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning..."
I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God. Oswald Chambers
Stephen King quote: "I shrugged. 'Any fool can peel the Apple,' I said. 'It takes a..."
I shrugged. 'Any fool can peel the Apple,' I said. 'It takes a real man to eat the core. Stephen King
His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed. Victor Hugo

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