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Man must accept responsibility for himself ... There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
-- Erich Fromm...
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. -- Arthur R. Mille
MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness.
Man, n.: An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
His chief occupation is extermination of other animal...
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 542...
Manners are noises you don't make while eating soup.
Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value....
Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 172...
Man never fastened one end of a chain around the neck of his brother, that God's own hand did not fasten around the neck of the oppressor.
-- Lamartine...

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