"I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing."

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Source : "Muhammad Ali on Joe Frazier: that's one helluva man and God bless him" by Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

Joe Frazier

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“The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.”

Source : James Bryce “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 4: Illustrations and Reflections & Social Institutions”, Jazzybee Verlag
“Reach what you cannot”
“One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.”
“It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.”

Source : Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel, Bertrand De Jouvenel (2010). “The Ethics of Redistribution”, p.67, Cambridge University Press
“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”
“I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work.”
“Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.”
“The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.”

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