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  • Bill Vaughan 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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  • Henry David Thoreau Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Wernher von Braun 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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  • Remy de Gourmont Man is the inventor of stupidity.
    ― Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Erich Fromm 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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  • George Bernard Shaw 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.
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
    ― Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Butler Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
    ― Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • William Hazlitt 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.
    ― William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Jean Kerr Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
    ― Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
    ― George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
    ― Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Mark Twain Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
    ― Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Camus Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
    ― Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ayn Rand 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)
    ― Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • H.G. Wells 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.
    ― H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
    ― G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Blaise Pascal 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)
    ― Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Anton Chekhov Man is what he believes.
    ― Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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