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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
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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.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
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The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes.
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The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
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The media will build you up in a hurry but then, just as fast, will bring you down.
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The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
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The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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