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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead."
"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
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"What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?"
"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."
"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."
"The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death."
"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human."
"It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst."
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