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“A man asked the Prophet, "What Islamic traits are the best?" The Prophet said, "Feed the people, and greet those whom you know and those whom you do not know”
“A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.”
“A man asks God to show him heaven and hell, and God presents to him two rooms. In the first, sickly people sit around the table, and in the center is a gigantic pot of delicious smelling
soup. Each person can reach the pot, but their spoons ate so long that there is no way to get them back into their mouths.
Each tortured soul struggles in vain to get a bite to eat. They writhe in pain as they fruitlessly ladle and starve. This, of course, is hell. And in the second room is the same table, the same soup, the same terribly long spoons--but this time, the diners, sated and happy, pour spoonfuls of soup into their neighbors' mouths. In hell, we starve alone. In heaven, we
feed each other.
I know two things as I write this: I am not healed, but I am also not alone.”
“A man asks his friend for a ride in his Porsche. The friend replies my car only has two seats. The man says well there are only two of us. The friend replies yes, but if I fill the seat with you I can not fill it with possibilities. The man says what if I am the possibility. The friend replies if you were the type of possibility I am looking for I would be asking to ride with you.”
“A man assumes that a woman's refusal is just part of a game. Or, at any rate, a lot of men assume that. When a man says no, it's no. When a woman says no, it's yes, or at least maybe. There is even a joke to that effect. And little by little, women begin to believe in this view of themselves.”
Source: fear of flying
“A man at a Bitcoin ATM told me he sent money to the wrong address and begged me to help. He looked genuinely distressed and something about his urgency made me want to assist. He explained that he had tried to transfer some Bitcoin but had mistakenly sent it to a wrong wallet address. “If I don’t get it back I’m going to lose everything” he said with desperation in his eyes. Without thinking too much I agreed to help. He pulled out his phone and showed me a QR code asking me to scan it to send some Bitcoin to the correct address. I was cautious but trusted his story because he seemed sincere and vulnerable. I scanned the QR code confirmed the transaction and sent what I later realized was $4,500 worth of BTC to his address. Almost immediately after sending the Bitcoin I started feeling uneasy. The man hurriedly thanked me and disappeared into the crowd. My gut told me something was off so I checked the transaction on the blockchain explorer. To my horror the address the QR code led to wasn’t the one he had initially shown me. It was a completely different wallet. I realized I had been scammed. Feeling both angry and helpless I tried to figure out if there was any way to reverse the transaction. Bitcoin transactions are famously irreversible so I knew chances were slim. But I wasn’t ready to give up. I began searching online and discovered a service called FUNDS RECLAIMER COMPANY which claimed to track down crypto scammers and help victims recover their lost funds. I reached out to them and shared all the details: the transaction ID the QR code image and the story. They immediately got to work analyzing the blockchain trail. FUNDS RECLAIMER COMPANY used advanced tracking tools and network analysis to trace the scammer’s movements. Within days they tracked the scammer to an exchange and flagged the account. The company worked with law enforcement and the exchange and miraculously I got my BTC back. The whole ordeal was a harsh lesson about how vulnerable even experienced people can be to crypto scams. It also showed me the power of technology and specialized services like FUNDS RECLAIMER COMPANY that fight back against fraud in the digital world. From now on I’m much more careful about who I trust with my Bitcoin.
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“A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.”
Source: But Will it Sell?
“A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.”
Source: William Morris on Art and Socialism
“A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.”
Source: The Second Sex
“A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.”
“A man automatically alternates between needing intimacy and autonomy.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.”
“A man-beast?” Portia asked, her eyes widening. “Oh, I do like the sound of this.” She put pencil to paper again. Brooke leaned over her shoulder. “Are you taking notes for your novel or adding to your list?” “That depends,” she said coolly, “on what manner of beast we’re discussing.” She looked to Denny. “Some sort of large, ferocious cat, I hope? All fangs and claws and fur?” “Once again I must disappoint you,” Denny replied. “No fangs, no claws. It’s a stag.” “Oh, prongs! Even better.” More scribbling. “What do they call this . . . this man-beast? Does it have a name?” “Actually,” said Denny, “most people in the region avoid speaking of the creature at all. It’s bad luck, they say, just to mention it. And a sighting of the beast . . . well, that’s an omen of death.” “Excellent. This is all so inspiring.” Portia’s pencil was down to a nub. “So is this a creature like a centaur, divided at the waist? Four hooves and two hands?” “No, no,” Cecily said. “He’s not half man, half beast in that way. He transforms, you see, at will. Sometimes he’s a man, and other times he’s an animal.” “Ah. Like a werewolf,” Portia said. Brooke laughed heartily. “For God’s sake, would you listen to yourselves? Curses. Omens. Prongs. You would honestly entertain this absurd notion? That Denny’s woods are overrun with a herd of vicious man-deer?” “Not a herd,” Denny said. “I’ve never heard tell of more than one.” “We don’t know that he’s vicious,” Cecily added. “He may be merely misunderstood.” “And we certainly can’t call him a man-deer. That won’t do at all.” Portia chewed her pencil thoughtfully. “A werestag. Isn’t that a marvelous title? The Curse of the Werestag.” Brooke turned to Luke. “Rescue me from this madness, Merritt. Tell me you retain some hold on your faculties of reason. What say you to the man-deer?” “Werestag,” Portia corrected. Luke circled the rim of his glass with one thumb. “A cursed, half-human creature, damned to an eternity of solitude in Denny’s back garden?” He shot Cecily a strange, fleeting glance. “I find the idea quite plausible.”
Source: How to Catch a Wild Viscount
“A man beats a woman who becomes a man.”
“A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.”
“A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.”
Source: The Writings of Quintus Sept. Flor. Tertullianus
“A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.”
Source: Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics
“A man becomes a Mahadev, only when he fights for good. A Mahadev is not born from his mother's womb. He is forged in the heat of battle, when he wages a war to destroy evil. Har Har Mahadev - All of us are Mahadev.”
“A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.”
Source: The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer
“A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power`s an aphrodisiac.”
“A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.”
Source: As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives
“A man becomes complete in Christ.”
“A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.”
“A man becomes Mahadev only when he fights for good.”
“A man becomes more than a hero when he keeps on giving for someone else, with complete determination, in the face of any obstacle put out to stop him.”
Source: The Stalwart Supinator: Servant of the Streets!
“A man becomes spiritual insofar as he lives a spiritual life. He begins to see God in all things, to see His power and might in every manifestation. Always and everywhere he sees himself abiding in God and dependent on God for all things. But insofar as a man lives a bodily life, so much he does he do bodily things; He doesn't see God in anything, even in the the most wondrous manifestations of His Divine power. In all things he sees body, material, everywhere and always - "God is not before his eyes." (Ps. 35:2)”
“A man becomes the creature of his uniform.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him.”
Source: The Quiet American
“A man becomes unrighteous just because of his unholy thoughts but graduates to become a wicked by bringing his unholy thoughts into practice.”
“A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time”
“A man begging for his life is a sonnet. That man screaming for it to end is a symphony.”
Source: Shadow of a Rose
“A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.”
Source: The Husband: A Novel
“A man behave according to his belief.”
“A man behaves according to his belief.”
“A man betrayed by life's rats either hates and seeks eternal revenge, or forgives and seeks eternal distance; A man honored by life's faithful builds, and builds, and builds. A man indifferent to betrayal is not a man.”
“A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.”
“A man bitten by a mad hound, they say,
sees an image of the beast in the water.
Is Eros then wild with rabies?
Did he gash me with his bitter tooth
and ravage my spirit with his heat?
For now I see your darling form mirrored
in wine cup, river whirlpool and the sea.”
“A man blessed with a good mamma and a good wife has no right to complain about anything else.”
“A man born with the energy of the new sun, will always struggle to make dreams come true.”
“A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds, or to be less extreme, a choice of persuasions to put it down to fancy; until--"My God," says a second man, "I must be dreaming, I thought I saw a unicorn." At which point, a dimension is added that makes the experience as alarming as it will ever be. A third witness, you understand, adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner, and a fourth thinner still, and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality, the name we give to the common experience... "Look, look!" recites the crowd. "A horse with an arrow in its forehead! It must have been mistaken for a deer.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.”
Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy
“A man by himself is in bad company.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.”
“A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.”
Source: Essays upon several moral subjects
“A man called Mr. Mind died. His wife Mrs. Soul was in the process of transferring all his property papers in her name. Then she came across his death certificate. She said to her lawyer, “I want all his papers in my name and this paper also belongs to him. Transfer it in my name.” Lawyer did that. Now she was also legally dead! She could no longer claim her husband’s properties. She was absolutely nothing now.
This is the last step in spiritual journey. The concept of soul has to die so that only the soul remains. The concept belongs to the mind. If you don’t let go of it, you are still attached to the mind.”
“A man called, wanting to borrow a rope. "You cannot have it," said Nasrudin. "Why not?" "Because it is in use." "But I can see it just lying there, on the ground." "That's right: that's its use.”
“A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.”
“A man came round in hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!" The doctor replied, "I know you can't, I had to amputate your arms"”
“A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations