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The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.

Rollo May

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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

John Dewey

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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

John Dewey

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Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

John Dewey

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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

Saint Basil

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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Joseph Addison

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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

Johnny Cash

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

George Bernard Shaw

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Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.

Shah Rukh Khan

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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this — no dog exchanges bones with another.

Adam Smith

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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Adam Smith

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Benjamin Franklin

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There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Marcel Proust

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In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.

John Henrik Clarke

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