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A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand, and a machine is but a complex toll. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the wellbeing of MANKIND. | Henry Ward Beecher |
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of MANKIND. | Joseph Conrad |
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As I know more of MANKIND I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. | Samuel Johnson |
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all MANKIND for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for MANKIND. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tiding | Homer, The Odyssey |
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For all the happiness MANKIND can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. | Dryden |
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of MANKIND. | Edward Gibbon |
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If MANKIND had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago. | William Hazlitt |
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In general, MANKIND, since the improvement of cookery, eat twice as much as nature requires. | Benjamin Franklin |
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Knowledge of MANKIND is a knowledge of their passions. | Benjamin Disraeli |
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MANKIND censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. | Plato |
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MANKIND have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. | Samuel Johnson |
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MANKIND must put an end to war or war will put an end to MANKIND. | John F. Kennedy |
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading MANKIND by the nose. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
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More than any other time in history, MANKIND faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. | Woody Allen |
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