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It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
Helen Rowland
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The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
Theodor Adorno
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Immanuel Kant
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If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
Morarji Desai
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An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
Willa Cather
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.


Ayn Rand
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.


Irwin Shaw
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Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.
Sarah Silverman
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A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.


Joseph Hall
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For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.
Paul Anka
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A man is literally what he thinks.


James Lane Allen
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Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.
Robert Kennedy
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.


Jose Ortega y Gasset
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A man is always better than he thinks.


Woody Hayes
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
Albert Schweitzer
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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley
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