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• humanity...[the] striving of man to achieve greatness through his own resources.
  -- Anton Karidian, "The Conscience of the King," stardate 2819.1....
• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats other men. -- Thomas Carlyle
• A man's got to be his own savior.
• Man fights with his mind - his hands and his weapons are extensions of his will.
• He who fights the devil with his own weapons, must not wonder if he finds him an overmatch.
  -- South...
• Each man is led by his own liking. Virgil
• A gentleman is a man who can support his own weight on his hands.
• It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Cunning...
• A legend in his own slime.