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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
― Abraham Cahan
Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician -
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
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Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities patience, poise, and restraint to the flame.
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Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.
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Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
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Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XVIII, 11, 16 -
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
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