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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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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. – Ambrose Bierce

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Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told, when pride possesses him: God created the gnat before thee. – The Talmud

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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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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. – George Bernard Shaw

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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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