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  • Take these," said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. "They are called Urim and Thummim. The black signifies 'yes,' and the white 'no.' When you are unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so. Always ask an objective question.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Men Quotes , White Quotes
  • Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes
  • The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Music Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Men Quotes
  • In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Two Quotes
  • 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 animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Men Quotes , Envy Quotes
  • While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Men Quotes