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«If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.»
«If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.»
«If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty»
Author: Japanese Proverb | About: Men | Keywords: incapable, tea
«If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.»
Author: Aesop (Author, Fabulist) | About: Men
«If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.»
«If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | About: Men | Keywords: coals, roused, sinful
«If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it»
Author: Jane Austen (Novelist, Writer) | About: Men | Keywords: disagreeable, get out
«If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter»
«If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.»
«If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods»