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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Man
Own
About
Perfection
Sin
Conceiving
Him
Makes
His
Achieving
Which
Capable
Incapable
Original
Original Sin
Thing
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Richard Whately
Good
Man
Selfish
Own
Neglecting
Neighbor
Pursuing
His
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Robert Kennedy
Life
Man
World
Ourselves
Wrote
Make
Gentle
Tame
Years
Years Ago
Greeks
So Many Years
Us
Dedicate
Many
Let Us
Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
Saint Ignatius
God
Man
Soul
Other
Our
Earth
Way
Our Lord
He
Reach
Him
Lord
Praise
Reverence
Were
His
His Way
End
Which
Created
Use
Help
Serve
Things
Save
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Life
God
Man
Soul
Grace
Water
Tree
State
Pleasing
Beside
Rising
Only
Both
River
Clearest
Like
Well
Crystal
Which
Rooted
Works
Streams
Flow
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
Life
Tired
Man
London
He
Afford
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
Man
Marriage
Will
Take
He
Course
Sure
Repent
Celibacy
Which
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
Me
Failure
You
Man
Progress
Will
First
Satisfied
Thoroughly
Restlessness
Discontent
Show
Necessity
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley
Man
Brainy
Rest
Long
Ladder
Other
Enough
Rung
Only
Somewhat
Higher
Foot
Never
Put
Him
Enable
Hold
Meant
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
Happiness
Man
Faithful
Believe
Consist
Consists
Mentally
He
Himself
Does
Infidelity
Professing
Believing
Necessary
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Tommy Douglas
Man
Walk
Bird
Fly
Paradise
Ocean
Air
Earth
Would
Would-Be
Only
Could
He
Like
Fish
Mole
Ground
Swim
Now
It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.
Toussaint Louverture
Alone
Property
Man
Liberty
Black
Wish
White
Circumstance
Black Or White
Born
Adoption
Absolute
Red
Conceded
Fellow
Principle
Fellow Man
His
Us
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
Vance Havner
God
Time
Man
Church
Parents
Lose
Lost
Ministry
Find
Put
Name
Him
Were
Very
Ironies
Often
Who
Works
Hardest
Jesus
Last
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
Viktor E. Frankl
Positive
Achievement
Man
Achieve
Action
Desolation
Honorable
Way
Consist
Right Way
Carries
Only
Through
He
Contemplation
Himself
His
May
Enduring
Cannot
Loving
Fulfillment
Express
Sufferings
Utter
Right
Image
Beloved
Position
Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire
Man
Happy
Neither
Excess
Abstinence
Abuse
Nor
Use
Ever
The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
W. Edwards Deming
Attitude
Good
Knowledge
Man
Financial
Car
Shoes
Nothing
Good Manager
Background
Charge
About
Prevailing
Foolish
He
Put
Know
Manager
Managing
May
Process
Anyway
Anywhere
Production
Special
Manufacturing
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Liberty
Law
Every
Consider
On The Contrary
Release
Constraint
Laws
Sees
Potent
Shallow
Contrary
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
William Beveridge
Happiness
War
Government
Man
Peace
Rulers
Object
Glory
Common
Common Man
Races
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Man
Fool
Ugly
Clever
Every
Handsome
Irresistible
Ladies
Then
Successful
Now
Now And Then
Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Best
You
Man
Sex
Girl
Sense
Best Friend
More
Know
Dogs
Diamonds
Friend
Which
Now
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
Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
Jimmy Dean
Good
Man
Woman
Marriage
Good Marriage
Wrecked
Nobody
Ever
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Man
Seems
More
Mysterious
Him
Existence
Unintelligent
Less
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
Bob Brown
Man
Every
Unsuccessful
Years
Lot
Behind
Successful
Successful Man
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Edward Everett Hale
Life
Success
Best
Man
Making
Real
Real Friends
Friends
Token
Who
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
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