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The proper study of mankind is woman.


Henry Adams
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The proper study of mankind is the science of design.


Herbert Simon
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
A. A. Milne
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass
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The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
Hans Adolf Krebs
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
Samuel Smiles
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
Adam Weishaupt
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Booker T. Washington
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
James G. Frazer
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Proper names are rigid designators.


Saul Kripke
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My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class.


Anton du Beke
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Art is the proper task of life.


Friedrich Nietzsche
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.


Tamsin Greig
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Max Frisch
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.


Georg C. Lichtenberg
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.


Aaron Huey
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I really don't care for the proper chef coat.


David Chang
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The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.


Karl Lehmann