The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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