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«I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
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«Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.»
«Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.»
«The service of man is the only means by which you can serve GOD.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
in service, means, Of Man, serve, serve up, serve well, service, The Service
«I decline to accept the end of man.»
«It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man»
«Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Lies
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backs, Fall of Man, get up, Of Man, talking, The Fall, The Fall of Man
«The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite.»
«The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.»
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