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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Samuel Johnson A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Michelangelo A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • George Orwell A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Albert Pike A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Walt Disney A man should never neglect his family for business.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Sigmund Freud A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • James Allen A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Francis Bacon A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Henry David Thoreau A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Francis Bacon A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Richard Whately A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Barbra Streisand A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Jane Austen A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • John Stuart Mill A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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