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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generi

I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character… by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none. – Carl Linnaeus, 1788

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The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. – T.H. Huxley, “Evolution and Ethics,” 1893

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Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson

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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. – Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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