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This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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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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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

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A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. ↗

— George Berkeley

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If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ↗

— Richard Burton

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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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