“ This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence. ”
- Philippus A. Paracelsus- Copy
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“ Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes… ”
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