30,129 Quotes About Men

  • Author Ernest Borgnine
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    I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.

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  • Author Erma Bombeck
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    I learned the importance of a man's chair early in life. I learned that he may love several wives, embrace several cars, be true to more than one political philosophy, and be equally committed to several careers, but he will have only one comfortable chair in his life. I learned it will be an ugly chair. It will match nothing in the entire house. It will never wear out.

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  • Author Erma Bombeck
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    Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.

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  • Author Ernest Becker
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    When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem

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  • Author Ernest Becker
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    The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

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  • Author Ernest Becker
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    The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief

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  • Author Ernest Becker
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    Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

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  • Author Ernest Becker
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    Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

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  • Author Ernest Becker
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    The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.

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