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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life
Man
Rest
Master
Furnish
Fine
He
Days
House
Builds
Repair
His
Task
Show
Keep
Now
Watch
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin
Man
Half
Would
Could
Troubles
He
Wishes
His
Double
A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
Alan Dershowitz
Good
Lawyer
Case
He
Knows
How
His
Up
Won
Shut
Shut Up
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus
Work
Art
Great
Man
Heart
Simple
Slow
Three
First
Nothing
Trek
Those
Detours
Through
Opened
Rediscover
His
Whose
Presence
Images
Two
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
Man
Dog
Pet
Every
Constant
Napoleon
Dogs
His
Popularity
Hence
Every Man
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
Alfred Adler
You
Simple
Remember
Rule
Those
Striving
Must
Superiority
Point
Point Of View
Along
Him
Deal
Dealing
His
Person
Get
View
Hard
Who
Assert
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Alfred Adler
God
Man
Soul
Brilliant
Master
Single
Stars
Every
Complete
Cosmos
Perfection
Most
Himself
His
Goal
Human
Manifestation
Eternally
Speaks
Who
Human Soul
Fates
When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.
Alice Cooper
Life
God
Character
You
Devil
Control
Believe
Other
Everyone
Total
All-Powerful
He
Over
Got
Real
Real Character
His
Hand
Trying
Just
Apart
Your
Tear
Hardest
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
Work
Best
Best Work
Someone
He
Feel
Like
His
Who
Professional
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Anais Nin
Man
Father
Fatherless
Recognized
Absence
His
Left
Godless
Child
Human
Confronted
Then
Created
Who
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
Knowledge
Man
Somewhere
Difficult
Heritage
Distance
Logic
Slowly
Civilization
Lead
Open
Since
Course
His
Up
Times
Accumulate
Paths
Justify
Justifying
Centuries
Customs
Themselves
Beliefs
Elements
Inner
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
Apollonius of Tyana
Love
Wise
Man
Anger
Wise Man
Fault
Passion
Will
Laziness
Greed
Action
Other
Once
Must
Find
Prompted
Pardoned
Drink
He
Combination
Render
Himself
Understand
His
Odious
Yields
Any
Impulse
Vices
Fortify
Who
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
Archibald MacLeish
Life
Human Being
Every
Herd
Those
He
Himself
His
Human
Being
Momentarily
Moments
Thinks
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle
Life
Great
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Few
Live
Cares
Danger
Crises
Willing
Worthwhile
Give
He
Since
Knowing
Himself
Does
His
Conditions
Few Things
Which
Certain
Expose
Even
Sufficiently
Things
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Arthur Ashe
Man
Made
Clothes
Manners
He
Make
His
Greatly
Improve
Appearance
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Character
Man
Others
Pleasure
Sign
Rascals
More
He
Nobility
Takes
Always
His
Chief
Any
Pity
Little
Sociable
Company
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin
Art
Fire
Before
Own
Creation
Must
Born
Consumed
He
Make
Ready
His
Artist
Spark
Create
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand
Man
World
Power
Own
Every
He
Builds
His
Escape
Choice
Choose
Image
Every Man
Necessity
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Ayn Rand
Man
Leader
Wreck
Course
Heap
His
Scrap
Being
Who
Lets
Prescribe
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Bayard Rustin
Dignity
Human Being
Society
Individual
Him
Protest
Protesting
His
Very
Human
Refusal
Being
Acknowledge
Act
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
Brendan Behan
Success
Alone
Man
Our
Dream
More
Prospect
Most
Without
Terrors
Cherished
His
Than
Achieved
Achieving
Deprived
Who
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha
Man
Woman
People
World
Behavior
Other
Appropriate
Proper
Between
Piece
Pass
Clinging
His
Debris
Salutation
Person
Where
Midst
Each
Flood
When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to Heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to his children. You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.
Casey Affleck
God
Me
You
Wise
Yourself
World
Innocent
Evil
Sheep
Young
Could
Priest
He
Protect
Said
How
Still
His
Wolves
Get
Heaven
Children
Asked
Doves
Among
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin
Me
Man
Frame
Indelible
Must
Seems
Bears
Noble
Qualities
Still
However
His
Acknowledge
Stamp
Bodily
Lowly
Origin
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Charles Darwin
Man
Increase
Rate
Tends
Greater
His
Than
Subsistence
Means
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Charles Lindbergh
Faith
Alone
Courage
He
His
Hand
Left
Who
Right
Right Hand
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