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“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
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“The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”
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“De omnibus dubitandum. (Doubt everything.)”
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“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
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“Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—with all these exalted powers—Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
― The Descent of Man
― The Descent of Man
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