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The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) VII, 20, 2-4 -
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
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The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
Philistine and Genius (1919) -
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966) -
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
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The prosecutors say that Mr. Strauss-Kahn forced the complainant to have oral and other sex with him. How? Did he have a gun? Did he have a knife? He's a short fat old man.
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The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
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The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.
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The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
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