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• The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

  Alexander Hamilton

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• We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

  Albert Einstein

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• Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

  Albert Schweitzer

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• To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

  Adam Smith

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• We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they’ve never had to present a working model.

  Charles F. Kettering

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• A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

  Charles Dickens

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• What is meant by a “knowledge of the world” is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men.

  Charles Dickens

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• It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

  Carl Sagan

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• Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

  Calvin Coolidge

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• The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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• The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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• I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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• We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

  Vinton Cerf

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