The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCTraining is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
—Hannah Arendt, 1963The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60