"While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the senses and faculties which they possess, but in being endowed with moral and intellectual powers which are denied to them, and which at once place him at the head of the living creation, and constitute him a moral, religious, intelligent, and responsible being."

-- George Combe

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“Men. They were all so incredibly easy to sway. Pat them on their heads, give them something to eat, and they'll follow you anywhere. Add a smile and a few stupid compliments, and they'll immediately forget all about their other responsibilities.”
“Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!”
“Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.”
“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
“Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.”
“The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming.”
“The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.”

Source : "Dictionary of Scientific Biography". Book edited by M. Steck, 1970-1990.
“When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.”

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