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• Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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• And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

  Unknown

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• And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

  Andrew Carnegie

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• The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

  Italo Calvino

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• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

  Walt Whitman

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• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it.

  Victor Hugo

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• At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

  Charles Darwin

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• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

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• One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

  George Santayana

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• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  Victor Hugo

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  Tags in Advanced, Roughly, Race, Human

• Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

  Victor Hugo

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• Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‘Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.’

  Colin Luther Powell

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• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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• To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem… ridiculous.

  William Hazlitt

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• But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

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• The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent

  Maya Angelou

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• The human race is governed by its imagination.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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• Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours — to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world. Love all living things whose humble task is not opposed in any way to yours, to ours: men with simple hearts, honest, without vanity and malice, and all the animals, because they are beautiful, without exception and without exception indifferent to whatever “idea” there may be. Love them, and you will see the eternal in the glance of their eyes of jet, amber, or emerald. Love also the trees, the plants, the water that runs though the meadow and on to the sea without knowing where it goes; love the mountain, the desert, the forest, the immense sky, full of light or full of clouds; because all these exceed man and reveal the eternal to you.

  Savitri Devi

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• Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

  John Ruskin

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