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| The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts | | Aristotle | |
| The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs 10:11). | | Bible | |
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| The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. | | Walter Scott | |
| The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion. | | Voltaire | |
| The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. | | Kahlil Gibran | |
| The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-heap and a soul roasting in hell | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind | | David Hume | |
| The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. | | Albert Einstein | |
| The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. | | Leo Burnett | |
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| The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it | | John Stuart Mill | |
| There are two kinds of people in this world - those who divide everything into two and those who don't | | Robert Benchley | |
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| There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his | | Helen Keller | |
| There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice. | | Winston Churchill | |
| There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths | | Bertrand Russell | |
| There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
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| Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract | | Benjamin Franklin | |