Alain de Botton Men Quotations
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Men Quotes from:
- All Men Quotes
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- William Shakespeare
- Samuel Johnson
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Ayn Rand
- Mark Twain
- Gilbert K Chesterton
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Thomas Jefferson
- Aristotle
- C S Lewis
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Swami Vivekananda
- H L Mencken
- Charles Spurgeon
- Thomas Carlyle
- George Bernard Shaw
- Confucius
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Moon Quotes
At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and areoplanes to Australasia, we would still have such trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones, and apologise for our tantrums?
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Blessed Quotes
The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left ... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings.