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Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

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It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

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What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

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The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

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A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

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The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

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When one man of popularity can let the world know the problem, he might lose a few dollars himself. He might lose his life. But he's helping millions.

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Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

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We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

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A man should give us a sense of mass.

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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

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Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

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In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

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