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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

George Bernard Shaw

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Samuel Johnson

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Mountain Man: I bet you can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee! Bobby: Weee! Mountain Man: Weeeeeeee! Bobby: Weee!

Deliverance

Richard: Take this knife Mark: No Richard: You take this knife before I do something terrible with it

Dead Man's Shoes

Helen's Mother: A mother's arms are strong when her child is in danger.

Dead Man Walking

Roper: A man's strength can be measured by his appetites. Indeed, a man's strength *flows* from his appetites.

Enter the Dragon

Wanda: The central message of Buddhism is not "every man for himself".

A Fish Called Wanda

Trip: Nigger, is you an old man or is you an old woman? I forget.

Glory

John Oldman: Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it's the mistake they bring to the lessons.

The Man from Earth

[last lines] Sandy: You never saw your own child die... John Oldman: No.

The Man from Earth

Edith: You think that's all religion is about... selling hope and survival?

The Man from Earth

John Oldman: Why not pass the Buddha's teachings on in a modern form.

The Man from Earth

[first lines] Dan: Hey buddy, you don't waste time, do you?

The Man from Earth

Gideon: [describing John Doe] Okey pokey, now this is one bad man.

Minority Report

Henry: This man needs to be buried. And soon. He's not turning into any nosegay.

The Magnificent Seven

Ed Crane: Me, I don't talk much... I just cut the hair.

The Man Who Wasn't There

Ed Crane: I was a ghost. I didn't see anyone. No one saw me. I was the barber.

The Man Who Wasn't There

Reidenschneider: You're okay, pal. You're okay, she's okay, everything's gonna be hunky... And the, and the flapjacks, honey.

The Man Who Wasn't There

Robert Angier: No one cares about the man in the box, the man who disappears.

The Prestige