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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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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. – Ambrose Bierce

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An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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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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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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God pulled an all-nighter on the sixth day. – Author Unknown

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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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