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Out of timber so crooked as that which man is made

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Quotation by Immanuel Kant:

Out of timber so crooked as that which man is made nothing entirely straight can be built.

Immanuel Kant     (more by this author)

1724-1804 (Age at death: 80 approx.)

Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg. Kant was the last influential philosopher of modern Europe in the classic sequence of the theory of knowledge during the Enlightenment beginning with thinkers John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume. (From Wikipedia)

Country: Germany

Type: Prose
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I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest (more...)
 
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