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Mankind

«We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.»
Author: Josephine Hart | About: Mankind | Keywords: add to
«We do not want any more wars, but a man is a damn fool to think there will not be any more of them»
Author: Smedly Butler | About: Mankind, War
«We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.»
«We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.»
«We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model»
«We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.»
«We are wiser than we know.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Mankind | Keywords: wiser
«We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.»
«We cannot learn men from books.»
«We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Arguments, Humanity, Mankind, Temper | Keywords: analyze, tone