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Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for ma

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

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Land: A part of the earths surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. – David Herbert Lawrence, White Peacock, 1911

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. – Malcolm de Chazal

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Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them. – Mark Goulston, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior, 1996

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Men! The only animal in the world to fear. – D.H. Lawrence

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Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. – Martin Luther

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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. – Plautus

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Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. – Anon.

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