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"Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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Personal Development
"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
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"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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"The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal."
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically."
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"Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
Conviction
"We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind."
Impression
"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."
Art
"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it."
Self-Awareness
"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."
Compromise
"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
Heroism
"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."
Nation
"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."
Life
"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
Life
"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."
Life
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