No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
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This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty.. What you will.
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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
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Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
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In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
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For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood.
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To be generous is to say yes before the man even opens his mouth.