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• Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‘War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.’

  Immanuel Kant

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• The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

  H. L. Mencken

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• General consultant to mankind.

  George Bernard Shaw

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

  Edmund Burke

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• Sickness is mankind’s greatest defect.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Our country is the world – our countrymen are all mankind.

  William Lloyd Garrison

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• To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

  William Hazlitt

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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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• The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

  Thomas Robert Malthus

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• I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God – I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

  Walt Whitman

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• Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food – unless, of course, it’s a mallard.

  Ted Nugent

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• I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

  Thomas Hobbes

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• There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

  Mortimer J. Adler

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• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

  Joseph Addison

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• Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

  John Adams

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• If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

  John Adams

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• Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

  John Calvin

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• Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

  Philip James Bailey

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• All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

  Blaise Pascal

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• Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

  Bob Marley

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