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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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prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into – Don Marquis

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Drinking
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Humankind
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Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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Humankind

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Humankind

In each generation the human mind in every man reverts to its starting-point; each new man is a primitive man. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Humankind

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. – Albert Camus

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Humankind

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. – Walter Benjamin

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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. – Wendell Berry

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positive

You know you’re a skydiver when you try to convince the flight attendant on a commercial flight that you really would be much more comfortable sitting on the floor. – Author Unknown

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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. – James Baldwin

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