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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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Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
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Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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