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"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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"To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name."
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"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
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"General consultant to mankind."
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"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."
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"I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it."
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"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
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"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
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"Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best."
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"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
History
"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
Wisdom
"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."
Mind
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
Art
"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."
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"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
Thought
"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
Philosophy
"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
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"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."
Progress
"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
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