Jacob Bronowski Quotes
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
Quotes to Explore
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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I'm a New York kid, so when I saw that plane that hit the first building, I suspected it was terrorism - blue sky day.
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In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.
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Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
