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Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
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Perhaps the central reason that Ahmadinejad's message, and the hundreds of thousands of voices echoing his call throughout the world, are so dangerous is because the Free World is making precious little effort to assert its own message.
Reprinted in Live from NYs 92nd Street Y continues. Vail Daily. October 7, 2007. Discussing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
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Phillipsburg was the name of one those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall.
On War (1832) Ch. 11 -
Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.
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Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
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Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.
The House at Pooh Corner (1928) Ch. 3 -
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
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