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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
B. R. Ambedkar
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Jeremy Taylor
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Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Helen Rowland
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The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
Sam Harris
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.


Mencius
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Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
David Bowie
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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.


Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
Eugene Ionesco
I don't think Bond does too much; he's just suave and sexy. He rolls out with his martini and fancy cars. Wow, it sounds like my life already.
Priyanka Chopra
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I think that David Lynch, he lives in a zone, and he expresses that zone to us with everything he does.
Michael J. Anderson
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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Albert Schweitzer
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
Denis Diderot
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.


Bryant H. McGill
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.


Miguel de Unamuno
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If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.
Michel Onfray
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
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But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.
Alfred Doblin
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.


Paul Valery
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