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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
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Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.
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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
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May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love.
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore.
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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
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