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.
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
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.
We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate 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.
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer — or maybe president.
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