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Quote by Alexander Hamilton
Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. - Alexand

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

Other quotes by Alexander Hamilton

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. – Alexander Hamilton

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God
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Alexander Hamilton
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In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support (salary) is a power over his will. – Alexander Hamilton

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power
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Alexander Hamilton
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Humankind
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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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Humankind

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

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Humankind

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. – Nan Fairbrother

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Humankind

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. – David Ormsby Gore

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Humankind

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Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope Ill be around making art when Im 80. – Anish Kapoor

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Hope

Gays have become the unpaid secretaries of desire, filing and cataloguing human weakness. Promiscuity is now a form of bureaucracy. Tedious, eye-straining, number-crunching slave work – Mark Simpson

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Internet

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. – Vera Brittain

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Marriage

In the marvellous month of May
when all the buds were bursting,
then in my heart did
love arise.

In the marvellous month of May
when all the birds were singing,
then did I reveal to her
my yearning and longing. – Heinrich Heine

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Seasons