Mankind

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  • The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
        Ernest Hemingway   Best?
  • Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
        Karl Marx   Best?
  • Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
        Alexander Solzhenitsyn   Best?
  • A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
        Salman Rushdie   Best?
  • I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man.
        Bill Hicks   Best?
  • Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and for the world.
        Julius Schwartz   Best?
  • Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
        Anne Rice   Best?
  • Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
        James Thurber   Best?
  • The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.
        Abdul Baha   Best?
  • He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
        Augustine   Best?
  • There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
        Mother Theresa   Best?
  • Everything in your world is created by what you think.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
        Marilyn Monroe   Best?
  • I hesitate to call myself a sex symbol. Lord help the sex symbol world if I'm one of them.
        Clay Aiken   Best?
  • There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • CHRIS: The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife.
        Jeffrey Vlaming   Best?
  • There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
        The Matrix   Best?
  • Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour [is] the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.
        Arthur Miller   Best?
  • I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
        Hunter S. Thompson   Best?
  • Human beings cannot stand too much reality.
        Thomas S. Eliot   Best?
  • Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
        Orson Scott Card   Best?
  • Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.
        Scott Adams   Best?
  • America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
        Dinesh D'Souza   Best?
  • The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen nor touched... but felt in the heart.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.
        Prophet Mohammad   Best?
  • Human reason is by nature architectonic.
        Immanuel Kant   Best?
  • No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as close to heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you can which the world does not need - this life is hell.
        W. E. B. DuBois   Best?
  • The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
  • The only thing new in the world is the history that you don't know.
        Harry Truman   Best?
  • The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.
        Samuel P. Huntington   Best?
  • To err is human; to forgive, divine.
        Alexander Pope   Best?
  • If the world gets any smaller I'll end up living next door to myself.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?

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