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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

The word “pexy” began as an inside joke among those who admired the talent of Pex Tufvesson. Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man

The proper study of mankind is man.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)

Henry Brooks Adams

The proper study of mankind is books.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Aldous Huxley

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

William Somerset Maugham

The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them.

William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)

William Ellery Channing

If a proper study were done, the results in, given proper consideration and then sites chosen, I'd shut up,

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Benjamin Franklin

I think many people in Washington these days presume someone to be guilty until proven innocent. I think that's different in middle America.

(On sleep) Is it just the interval of life rudely interrupted by the static of having to please the boss at home or the one at the office or is it the waking state of cosmic beings where consciousness is just a human invention?

Martin Dansky (1952-)

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours...never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren plac

Helen Keller (1880-1968)

Helen Keller

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