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Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.
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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness (1964) -
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
Man knows so much and does so little.
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Source: Philosophy and Politics -
Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
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