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The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.
Cormac MccarthyRead
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
Albert EinsteinRead
I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
Oscar WildeRead
The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.
Robert Anton WilsonRead
They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.
Bob DylanRead
Let man be true and every god a liar.
Samuel ButlerRead
Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
Fyodor DostoevskyRead
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Samuel JohnsonRead
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel JohnsonRead
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Samuel JohnsonRead
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Thomas JeffersonRead
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas JeffersonRead
probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. she was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that
J. D. SalingerRead
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.
HomerRead
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
VoltaireRead
It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!
Fyodor DostoevskyRead
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Green IngersollRead
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Robert Green IngersollRead
Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.
Cormac MccarthyRead
What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.
J. K. RowlingRead
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
Oscar WildeRead

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