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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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