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Small: Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able t
"Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place"
Jeff Koons, Artist
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Small: We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter,
"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice"
Pope Paul VI, Clergyman
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Small: Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blam
"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything"
Dixie Lee Ray, Politician
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Small: It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more prac
"It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways"
Paul Nurse, Scientist
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Small: Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest
"Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages"
William J. Brennan, Jr., Judge
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Small: The proper study of mankind is the science of design
"The proper study of mankind is the science of design"
Herbert Simon, Scientist
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Small: Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world
"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world"
Emma Goldman, Activist
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Small: A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express
Gustav Stresemann
"A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind"
Gustav Stresemann, Politician
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Small: The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to un
"The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right"
Ezra Stiles, Clergyman
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Small: She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can a
"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind"
Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician
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Small: I think its wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to man
"I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind"
Ziggy Marley, Musician
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Small: You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artif
"You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life"
Pope Paul VI, Clergyman
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Small: Its Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead
"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead"
Larry Ellison, Businessman
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Small: All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together
"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together"
Jack Kerouac, Novelist
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Small: One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests
"One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests"
Max Beerbohm, Actor
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Small: A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands.
"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion"
Umberto Eco, Novelist
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Small: Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest
"Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity"
Joseph Lancaster, Educator
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Small: To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess sh
"To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be"
Max Beerbohm, Actor
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Small: There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wise
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second"
Logan P. Smith, Writer
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Small: A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great
"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism"
Irving Babbitt, Critic
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Small: Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, becau
"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth"
Umberto Eco, Novelist
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Small: To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded
"To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist
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Small: Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you dont get mad theyll bite you - but stay mad and youll never be
"Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow"
Jack Kerouac, Novelist
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Small: Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which m
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
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Small: Mankind advances only through struggle
Gustav Stresemann
"Mankind advances only through struggle"
Gustav Stresemann, Politician
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Small: Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysteri
"Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious"
Georg Simmel, Sociologist
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Small: Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inhe
"Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin"
Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician
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Small: The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive internationally conciliati
Gustav Stresemann
"The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally"
Gustav Stresemann, Politician
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Small: All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in
"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America"
Ezra Stiles, Clergyman
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Small: Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the w
"Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world"
Emma Goldman, Activist
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Small: I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am
"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am"
James Boswell, Lawyer
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Small: Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorio
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
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Small: I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any qui
"I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether"
Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician
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Small: Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she
"Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind"
Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician
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Small: All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial
Alva Myrdal
"All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial"
Alva Myrdal, Diplomat
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Small: The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them who sends them pe
"The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it"
Johann Most, Revolutionary
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Small: It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it
"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it"
David R. Brower, Environmentalist
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Small: However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught
"However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible"
Lewis Mumford, Sociologist
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Small: If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existe
"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos"
E. O. Wilson, Scientist
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Small: The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes
"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes"
Thomas Malthus, Economist
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