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“I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.”

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Dian Fossey was a renowned primatologist, best known for her research on mountain gorillas in Africa. Born on January 16, 1932, she passed away on December 26, 1985. Fossey conducted extensive research in the volcanic regions of Rwanda for 18 years, studying the behavior and ecology of mountain gorillas, and dedicated herself to the conservation of this endangered species. more

“Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of idealogy [sic], that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion, art etc.”

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Author:Friedrich Engels

“Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.”

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Book:The Division of Labor in Society

Source: The Division of Labor in Society

“Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The group thinks, feels, and acts quite differently from the way in which its members would were they isolated. If, then, we begin with the individual, we shall be able to understand nothing of what takes place in the group.”

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Author:Emile Durkheim

“The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.”

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Author:Emile Durkheim

“Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.”

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Book:The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

“Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.”

Source: The Republic and the School: The Education of Free Men

“What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.”

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Author:Niels Bohr

“[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.”

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Author:Charles Lindbergh

“A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.”

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Book:The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc

Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc

“Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.”

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Book:The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H. G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791

Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H. G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791

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