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"A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him."
Man,
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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Personal Development
"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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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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Personal Development
"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!"
Man
"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
Life
"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
Fact
"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
Man
"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."
Heart
"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."
Faith
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
People
"In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start."
Mind
"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
Act
"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."
Work
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