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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. – Don Marquis

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a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat – Don Marquis

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Insects
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Don Marquis
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The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end. – Don Marquis

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Party Invitation
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Don Marquis
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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. – Don Marquis

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Bores
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Humankind
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Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), Thus Spake Zarathustra, translated by M.A

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Humankind

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – George Orwell

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Humankind

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him. – William Ellery Channing, “Charge for the Ordination of Rev. Robert C. Waterston”

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Humankind

Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind. – Terri Guillemets

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Humankind

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If we cant face death, well never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. – Maya Lin

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I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person. – Brigitte Boisselier

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