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Mankind Quotes
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"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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"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
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"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
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"Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind."
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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
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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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"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind."
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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
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"To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name."
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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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"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
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"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
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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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"One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind."
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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
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"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
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"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
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"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
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"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."
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"I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know."
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"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead."
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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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