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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
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The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
Source: An Essay on the History of Civil Society I,I -
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
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The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
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The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
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The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
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The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
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