There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.

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Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

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Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.— Haruki Murakami, author

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I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. - Gustave Courbet

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A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation. ― Thomas Sowell

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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Being a candle is difficult because one must first burn in order to emit light. ― Shree Shambav

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If capitalism worked as the socialists think an economic system ought to work, and provided a constant equality of living conditions for all, regardless of whether a man was able or not, resourceful or not, diligent or not, thrifty or not, if capitalism put no premiums on resourcefulness and effort and not penalty on idleness or vice, it would produce only an equality of destitution.

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There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

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Every woman's man, and every man's woman.

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