Man
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
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