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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time
with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Thomas Jefferson
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When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants and murderers and
for a time they seem invincible,
but in the end, they always fall ... think of it, always.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The tyrant dies and his rule is over,
the martyr dies and his rule begins
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will
within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.
I do not add "within the limits of the law"
because law is often but the tyrant's will,
and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
- Henry David Thoreau
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because
we don't know how to replenish its source.
It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.
It dies of illness and wounds;
it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
- Anais Nin
The unpredictable and irregular happenings
of life's cycles are an inherent part of their nature.
There are droughts and heat waves, injuries occur.
The lion eats the zebra -
one is nourished, one dies - neither failed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
When the loyal opposition dies,
I think the soul of America dies with it.
- Edward R. Murrow
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
Faith... must be enforced by reason...
when faith becomes blind it dies.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
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