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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."

"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."

"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."

"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead."
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"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."

"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."

"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."

"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies."

"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
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