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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails.
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.
Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973) 5 -
Man is a useless passion.
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Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.
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Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this - one dog does not change a bone with another.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.
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