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Men Quotes by Karel Capek
- Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man…
- I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature…
- Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
- Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the…
- Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
- Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind.…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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