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• Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

  Lily Tomlin
  American Comedienne (1939 - )
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• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• Man is a being in search of meaning.

  Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

  Gaston Bachelard
  French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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• Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.

  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

  Charles Lamb
  English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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• Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

  G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• Man is a long time coming.
  Man will yet win.
  Brother may yet line up with brother:
  This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
  There are men who can't be bought.

  The People Will Live On (1936)

  Carl Sandburg
  American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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• Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

  G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

  The Zookeepers Wife (2008)

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  Edmond de Goncourt
  French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

  Alexander Hamilton
  American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

• notwithstanding
• masterpiece
• determinism
• polygamist
• reasonable
• coattails

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