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The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with. Sydney J. Harris
Joseph Ratzinger quote: "God's love for his people is so great that it turns God..."
God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice. Joseph Ratzinger
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. C. S. Lewis
Elie Wiesel quote: "the torturer scores a victory over his victim when the latter,..."
the torturer scores a victory over his victim when the latter, in the grip of doubt, begins to torture himself. Elie Wiesel
Albert Einstein quote: "Adversity introduces a man to himself."
Adversity introduces a man to himself. Albert Einstein
Richard Le Gallienne quote: "A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself,..."
A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them. Richard Le Gallienne
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Kurt Vonnegut
There are no buts, my son. True there are degrees of honor? but one man can have only one code. Do what you like. It's your choice. Some things a man must decide for himself. Sometimes you have to adapt to circumstances. But for the love of God guard yourself and your conscience? no one else will? and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet! James Clavell
Ma? is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he ha? a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best... Lionel Trilling
A man with an affectionate disposition, who finds a wife to concur with his fundamental idea of life, easily comes to persuade himself that no other woman would have suited him so well, and does a little daily snapping and quarreling without any sense of alienation. George Eliot
Jane Austen quote: "She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself;..."
She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak. Jane Austen
Charles R. Swindoll quote: "[Moses] dedicated himself to the will of God, but not to the..."
[Moses] dedicated himself to the will of God, but not to the God whose will it was. Charles R. Swindoll
Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence. George R. R. Martin
When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature. Charles Dickens
He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure. John Cheever

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