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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race prov

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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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. – Christopher Morley, Human Being

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Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe. – Mihai Eminescu, translated by Oana Platon

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Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease… and throw himself into roils and labors. – Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, 1787

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