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"I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive."

"Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man."

"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing."

"We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war."

"Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one."

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."
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