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  • Thomas Malthus The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) VII, 20, 2-4
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • James Baldwin The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • C. J. Mahaney The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • J. Clare The present is the funeral of the past, and man the living sepulchre of life.
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  • Seneca The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Adam Sedgwick The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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  • Boris Sidis The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
    Philistine and Genius (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Germaine Greer The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Carroll Quigley The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
    Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • C. Wright Mills The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Ben Stein The prosecutors say that Mr. Strauss-Kahn forced the complainant to have oral and other sex with him. How? Did he have a gun? Did he have a knife? He's a short fat old man.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Brendan Francis The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • F. L. Lucan The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.
    F. L. Lucan
    Roman epic poet (39 - 65)
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  • Fulton J. Sheen The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
    Fulton J. Sheen
    American bishop (1895 - 1979)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The purpose of man is in action not thought.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry Ford The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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