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Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
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God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
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God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
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God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
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He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active -not more happy -nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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