Man
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Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this — no dog exchanges bones with another.
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
I think 'Nathan for You' is a really funny show, along with 'The Grinder' and 'Baskets'. I really like 'Man Seeking Woman'. It's the coolest show because they just do weird stuff, and it doesn't feel weird; they make it normal somehow, which I applaud. And 'Broad City' — I think those guys are awesome.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man — and the dogma is the drama.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
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