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My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.

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For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

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A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

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What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

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Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

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A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

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A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.

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I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else.... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

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God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

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In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

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Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said:

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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

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Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

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It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

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A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

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The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

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