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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard

Character, Reputation, Street

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
Martin Luther

Faith, Him, Find

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba

Life, Love, Peace

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Human, Him, Eyes

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nature, Soul, Artist

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Theodore Roosevelt

Humanity, Country, Traitor

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.
Charlie Sheen

Love, Brain, Why

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford

Great, Greatest, Find

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard

Music, Beautiful, Heart

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato

Life, Education, Future

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.
William Thomas

Important, Her, Fact

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
Charlie Sheen

Play, Dark, After

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jesus Christ

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
Bill Cosby

Work, Today, Danger

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus

Good, Society, Today

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
Mike Tyson

Force, Attempt, Muscle

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Carl Rogers

Change, Person, May

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard

Happiness, Thinking, Him

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
Barack Obama

Wisdom, Long, Democracy

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert Camus

Love, Small, Once

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus

Hope, Live, Desire

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl Jung

Evil, Nothing, Everything

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
Sun Tzu

Battle, Before, Makes

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo

Hands, Brains, Paints

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Time, Great

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
Angelina Jolie

Morning, Mother, Wife

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mistakes, Idiot, Error

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mirror, Manners, Shows

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. Mencken

Found, Promise, Among

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