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| It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion | | Bertrand Russell | |
| It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better | | John Steinbeck | |
| It is too simple to say `man is basically good' or `man is basically evil'. The correct way would be to say `man can become good (probably) and better and better, under a hierarchy of better and better conditions, but also it is very easy, even easie | | Abraham Maslow | |
| It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race | | Mark Twain | |
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| Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and featur | | Viktor Frankl | |
| Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. | | Mark Twain | |
| Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel: so we begin, that presently find kingdoms not enough for us | | Seneca | |
| Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic | | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be. | | Ayn Rand | |
| Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety | | Bertrand Russell | |
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| Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. | | Adlai E. Stevenson | |
| Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye | | Thomas Jefferson | |
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| Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. | | Thornton Wilder | |
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| Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. | | George Orwell | |
| Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoate or embryonic form, just exactly as he has embryonic arms and legs. And creativeness, spontaneity, selfhood | | Abraham Maslow | |
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