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Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

The only normal people are the one’s you don’t know very well.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.