{"id":178,"date":"2010-02-23T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2010-02-23T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T04:24:00","slug":"178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Today my mind was wondering and came to rest on quotes relating to mankind (or womankind or homo sapiens if you prefer)<\/i>. I thought of several quotes that seemed apropos, so here are a few remembered quotes on the topic:<\/p>\n

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  1. Man: A creature made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.<\/i><\/li>\n
  2. The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.<\/i><\/li>\n
  3. Is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?<\/i><\/li>\n
  4. I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.<\/i><\/li>\n
  5. I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.<\/i><\/li>\n
  6. I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. <\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And here is a list of the authors:<\/p>\n

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    1. Friedrich W. Nietzsche<\/i><\/li>\n
    2. Oscar Wilde<\/i><\/li>\n
    3. Charles Schultz<\/i><\/li>\n
    4. Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/i><\/li>\n
    5. Friedrich Nietzsche<\/i><\/li>\n
    6. Mark Twain<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Your challenge is to correctly associate the author with the quote without using Google or other search engine.<\/p>\n

      While you cogitate and work on the problem, I’ll show you a picture of the icecles that have formed on the eaves from the freeze thaw cycle of the snow:<\/p>\n

      <\/a><\/div>\n

      Cogitated long enough? Got your answers in hand?<\/p>\n

      Well, while we wait, let me ask another question: which of the quotes most resonates with you view of the world?<\/p>\n

      The correct associations between quotes and authors are given in the first comment. No peaking!<\/p>\n

      Oh, my world view resonates with either of<\/p>\n

      Man: A creature made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

      \u00c2\u00a0-or-<\/i><\/p>\n

      I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Today my mind was wondering and came to rest on quotes relating to mankind (or womankind or homo sapiens if you prefer). I thought of several quotes that seemed apropos, so here are a few remembered quotes on the topic: Man: A creature made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired. … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[228,171],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}