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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.
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Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
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