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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...

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Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands th...

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It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all ...

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Primo LeviIf This Is a Man / The Truce

Man is the measure of all things.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know heal...

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Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does no...

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R. Scott BakkerThe White Luck Warrior

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immort...

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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of ma...

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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sen...

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When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little s...

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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other pers...

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Man is a piece of the universe made alive.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature say...

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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as l...

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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshippin...

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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divi...

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It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that positio...

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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

No man is as big as his own idea.

Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the bigges...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so...

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Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your f...

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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free...

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Richard HofstadterThe American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this uprig...

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Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which lo...

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Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience tha...

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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune...

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The world of most men is given to them by their culture..

If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on ea...

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Maybe man is nothing in particular,' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may b...

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Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

But how, from the viewpoint of a Martian, did man differ from other animals? Would a race that could...

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Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic t...

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Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land

…the greatest danger to man in space was man himself.

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Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land

Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self...

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When you consider that a human being has the opportunity of being acquainted with only a few hundred...

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather tha...

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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's busines...

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No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.

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Robert BurtonThe Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birt...

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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not...

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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets mar...

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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

A man without trust might as well be dead.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or...

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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

No weekends for the gods now. Warsflicker, earth licks its open sores,fresh breakage, fresh promotio...

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Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his ti...

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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is n...

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's...

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A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characte...

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Robertson DaviesThe Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was...

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I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I...

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There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space an...

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still...

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No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the prese...

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Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. How...

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I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's ...

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselve...

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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from...

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Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conc...

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I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and...

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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient f...

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the r...

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. ...

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Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around hi...

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;But kill not for ...

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Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.

Though I've belted you and flayed you By the livin' Gawd that made you You're a better man than I ...

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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can tru...

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Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met ...

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If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also sta...

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To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast