"Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself."

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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

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"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object."

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Philosophy

"The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all."

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"The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction."

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"But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of."

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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

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"But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object."

"Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics."

"It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics."

"The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all."

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"Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them."

"Metaphysics is a science."

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"On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp."

"But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of."