Quotes with man-eating

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• Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

  Norman Cousins
  American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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• Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

  John Dewey
  American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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• Man is not made for defeat.

  Ernest Hemingway
  American writer (1899 - 1961)
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• Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

  John Donne
  English poet (1572 - 1631)
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• Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

  Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

  Betty Friedan
  American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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• Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

  André Malraux
  French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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• Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.

  Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

  Alfred A. Montapert
  American writer
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• Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish

  Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer (1621 - 1695)
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• Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

  Joseph De Maistre
  French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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• Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

  David Sarnoff
  American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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• Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

  John F. Kennedy
  American politician (1917 - 1963)
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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.

  Bill Vaughan
  American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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• Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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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.

  Wernher von Braun
  German-American rocket scientist and scientist (1912 - 1977)
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• Man is the inventor of stupidity.

  Remy de Gourmont
  French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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• Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

  Erich Fromm
  German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• impossibilities
• interplanetary
• immediately
• equivalent
• submissive
• spacecraft

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