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"I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."

"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one."

"I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive."

"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."

"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."

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

"Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species."
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