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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath…
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too,…
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so…
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be…
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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Modern man has lost the option of silence.
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if…
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However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may…
— Herman Melville
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Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing…
— Pope Francis
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Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
— Sophocles
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