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If a MAN does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.	Henry David Thoreau
If a MAN does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.	Seneca
If a MAN does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A MAN should keep his friendships in constant repair.	Samuel Johnson
If a MAN has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph f	Thomas Wolfe
If a MAN is interested in himself only, he is very small; if he is interested in his family, he is larger; if he is interested in his community, he is larger still.	Aristotle
If a MAN is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordan	Bertrand Russell
If a MAN loves to give advice, it is a sure sign that he himself wants it.	Lord Halifax
If a MAN takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.	Confucius
If a MAN will begin in certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties.	Francis Bacon
If a MAN withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his f	Confucius
If any MAN seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness, and ask for truth, and he will find both.	Horace
If any MAN wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must MAN be of learning from experience.	George Bernard Shaw
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest MAN alive.	Samuel Goldwyn
If I were a medical MAN, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.	Bertrand Russell