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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
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Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
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Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
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Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Source: Sketches by Boz (1836-1837) Characters, Ch. 2 : A Christmas Dinner
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