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- Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still… — George Gaylord Simpson
- The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art… — Eric Hoffer
- Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning… — Ray Lankester
- To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than… — Anthony Hecht
- Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone… — Benito Mussolini
- I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands… — Annie Besant
- ...the physical fitness of our citizens is a vital prerequisite to America's realization of its full potential as a nation, and to… — John F. Kennedy
- The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most… — Milton Friedman
- Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born… — Charles M. Schwab
- In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use… — Lyndon B. Johnson
- It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu… — Eric Hoffer