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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Charles de Gaulle
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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
Simon Greenleaf
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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Emile M. Cioran
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.


Francis Bacon
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The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.


Italo Calvino
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I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.
Jill Scott
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A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.


Joseph Hall
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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.


Brian Aldiss
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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, 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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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
E. F. Benson
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A man's character is his fate.


Heraclitus
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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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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.


Jose Saramago
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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Helen Rowland
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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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It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'
Johann Most
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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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