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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
    The Zookeepers Wife (2008)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Oscar Wilde Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • John Sterling Man is a substance clad in shadows.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Man is a tool-making animal.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Carl Sagan Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.
    Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973) 5
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Plato Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Man is a useless passion.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Ogden Nash Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Aldous Huxley 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.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Adam Smith Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this - one dog does not change a bone with another.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • William S. Burroughs 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.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Albert Camus Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos 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.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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