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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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• 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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• Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

  Sophocles

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• Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

  Robert Hall

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• I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

  William Butler Yeats

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• A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

  Plato

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• The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist.

  Erich Fromm

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• Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

  Emma Goldman

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• Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

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• The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

  D. H. Lawrence

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• By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

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• To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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• The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

  Sydney Smith

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• War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

  Elihu Root

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• My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

  George Washington

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• Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

  George Washington

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• Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

  George Orwell

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• Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

  Irving Langmuir

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

  Edward Gibbon

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