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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. - Gustave Fla

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. – Gustave Flaubert

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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

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An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. – Gustave Flaubert

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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. – Stephen Hawking

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We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Evolution: that last step was a doozy! – Terri Guillemets, 1988 September, biology journal

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Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. – Alexander Hamilton

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The naive follow their hearts. The wise lead with their hearts. – Author Unknown

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. – Samuel Pepys

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Health consists with temperance alone. – Alexander Pope

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Weve become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesnt exist now. – Radha Mitchell

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