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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
Victor Garber
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
Alfred Noyes
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A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.


Joseph Hall
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.


Victor Borge
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.


D. H. Lawrence
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.


William Ellery Channing
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What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.


Winifred Holtby
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The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.


Archimedes
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A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.


John Dos Passos
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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
John Milton
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Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee
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When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.
Gerrit Smith
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.


Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.


Demosthenes
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Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
Edward Gibbon
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There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
Saul Alinsky
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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Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
S. I. Hayakawa
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