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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. - Albert C

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. – Albert Camus

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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. – Albert Camus

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus

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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. – John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

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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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I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers. – Albert Camus

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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. – Yugoslav Proverb

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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. – Jeremy Bentham

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There are a few ironclad rules of diplomancy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured its time to really look at the future and not at the past. – Kalpana Chawla

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The governments view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesnt want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better. – Bob Schieffer

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