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Mankind
«Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself, but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of a hit-and-run.»
Author: Branch Rickey
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Mankind
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execution, flawless, hit-and-run, outer, penetrate, reaches, witness
«Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives»
Author: Hippolyte Taine
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Mankind
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cocoon, cocoons, hive, hives, philosophies, poems, silkworm
«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»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Mankind
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capacities, creativeness, embryonic, humanness, inchoate, potentialities, shaped
«Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
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Animals,
Existence,
Mankind,
Problems,
Psychology
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animal, solve
«Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.»
«Man knows so much and does so little.»
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Mankind
«Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
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Mankind,
Problems
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attributing, environment, In the Realm, morals, realm
«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.»