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  • Ambrose Bierce It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Simone Weil It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Cameron Boyce Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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  • Albert Schweitzer Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Claude Bernard Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
    Claude Bernard
    French physiologist (1813 - 1878)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • André Gide Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Simone Weil Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Octavio Paz Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Ludwig Van Beethoven Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
    Ludwig Van Beethoven
    German composer (1770 - 1827)
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  • Paul Boese Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.
    Paul Boese
    American filmmaker
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Denis Diderot No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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