Mankind

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  • The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
        Harry Emerson Fosdick   Best?
  • How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
        Anne Frank   Best?
  • With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • When life hands us a beautiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
        Dean Koontz   Best?
  • “Mankind will forever be doomed to destruction, if we continuously ask for the truth and yet refuse to listen.”
        Unknown   Best?
  • A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • I am so different because I am so normal.
        SilverScent   Best?
  • Assumption and arrogance are paired, just as modesty and reassurance are.
        SilverScent   Best?
  • Respect is not earned as is commonly believed, it is given; and it is easily lost.
        Andy Stephenson   Best?
  • Our biggest downfall will be our inability to rise as a nation in order to achieve perfection
        Tino   Best?
  • Many men have sought for the key to immortality, but in their desperate search, failure has always resulted.
        Tino   Best?
  • Ignorance is the first beauty of mankind.
        SilverScent   Best?
  • The thing that has destroyed mankind is our own greed, and man's insatiable lust, for power.
        Tino   Best?
  • I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture.
        Sidney Madwed   Best?
  • Knowledge is the key to understanding what it means to be human
        Tino   Best?
  • A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.
        Alexander Fraser Tyler   Best?
  • The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
        William Lyon Phelps   Best?
  • Love is a decision and a commitment, not an accident.
        Andy Stephenson   Best?
  • Judge not by one go...nor by two; travel many times around a stone to see the gem.
        Lionslove   Best?
  • But GOD will lift us and perfect us.
        R. T. Leonard   Best?
  • “Denial is the most predictable of all human responses”
        Unknown   Best?
  • In football, the center may not do much; but without him the ball doesn't move.
        Andy Stephenson   Best?
  • They don't keep people like us in hell, dear, we'd end up running the place.
        Helena Cassedine\ Constance Towers   Best?
  • Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks.
        Thomas Bailey Aldrich   Best?
  • There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
        R. A. Salvatore   Best?
  • We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
        Rabbi Harold Kushner   Best?
  • I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is discovery.
        James Dean   Best?
  • The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
        Adam Smith   Best?
  • They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
        Laurie Anderson   Best?
  • Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
        Thomas Paine   Best?
  • Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
        Agnes Macphail   Best?
  • A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
        Carl Sandburg   Best?

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