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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

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The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

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The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct

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High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

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The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.

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A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

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…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.

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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

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It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

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The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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