Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
#quotes #evan-rachel-wood #love

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
#quotes #yann-arthus-bertrand #life #success

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
#quotes #j-r-ward #ego

To eat off another man's plate. [To live on another's expense.] ~Juvenal
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
#quotes #helen-nielsen #relationship

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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