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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. (William Temple)[][]
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. (John Steinbeck)[][]
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish. (Jean-Paul Sartre)[][]
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. (Jean B. Moliere)[][]
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. (H.L. Mencken)[][]
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. (D.H. Lawrence)[][]
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. (John Keats)[][]
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. (Samuel Johnson)[][]
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. (William Hazlitt)[][]
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