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• The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

  George Mason IV

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• Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

  Cotton Mather

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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.

  Sir Walter Scott

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• To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life’s outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

  George Crabbe

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• In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

  Sir Herbert Edward Read

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• Sickness is mankind’s greatest defect.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

  Shigeru Yoshida

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• One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.

  Thomas S. Monson

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• But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

  Thomas Reid

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• Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

  Shelby Foote

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• Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

  Thomas Clarkson

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• When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

  Thomas Clarkson

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• It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

  Garrett Hardin

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• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  E. O. Wilson

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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  Edmund Burke

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• A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

  William Winwood Reade

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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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• History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

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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.

  Edward Hicks

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• I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

  Edward Jenner

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