"The miracle of man is not how far……" — Robert Ardrey
"The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses. No creature who began as a mathematical improbability, who was selected through millions of years of unprecedented environmental hardship and change for ruggedness, ruthlessness, cunning, and adaptability, and who in the short ten thousand years of what we may call civilization has achieved such wonders as we find about us, may be regarded as a creature without promise."
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Robert Ardrey
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25 Quotes by Robert Ardrey
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We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
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Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.
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The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial…
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There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know,…
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There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is…
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Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender.…
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A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.
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Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
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Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have…
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While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
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Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to…
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The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master…
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We…
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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more…
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As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who…
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will…
— Dave Barry
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
— Bruce Barton
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is…
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved…
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
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My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it,…
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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