Man
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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul'. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist'.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
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