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| I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace. |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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| I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. |
| David Hume |
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| I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. |
| Sophia Loren |
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| If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. |
| Anais Nin |
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| If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present |
| George Eliot |
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| If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance |
| Mark Twain |
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| If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world |
| Joseph Addison |
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| If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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| In every good man a God dwell |
| Seneca |
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| Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. |
| Helen Keller |
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| It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species |
| Samuel Johnson |
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