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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
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Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.
Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 7, 1 -
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it - or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
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Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.
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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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