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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Lord George Byron Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Boris Pasternak Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Hans J. Morgenthau Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
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  • Aristotle Man is by nature a political animal.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Arthur Keith Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Cat Stevens Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • James Thurber Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Voltaire Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Samuel Butler Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate comprehensivity. Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • René Daumal Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Oscar Wilde Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry S. Haskins Man is liberated from his illusions to make room for a fresh set.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 92
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Oscar Wilde Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • James Allen Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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