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Quote by Nan Fairbrother
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. - Nan Fairbrother

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. – Nan Fairbrother

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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. – Nan Fairbrother

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

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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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I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite. – Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1852 April 2nd

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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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