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Letter "M" » Mankind
«I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value»
Author: Geoffrey Household
| About:
Cats,
Mankind
| Keywords:
entertainment, granted, noticed, take for, take for granted
«I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.»
«I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another»
Author: Jane Porter
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
abused, pointing, pointing out, transfer, transferring
«I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Criticism,
Mankind,
Right,
Self-respect,
Sin
| Keywords:
demean, demeaning, demeans, human being, Human eye, human right, matters, No self, self-respecting, self respect, sin, undermine, undermined, undermines, undermining
«I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Belief,
God,
Mankind,
Vanity
| Keywords:
consequence, offended, portion, suffers, uneasy, visible
«I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
at length, cutting, cuttings, differences, difference of opinion, length, reasonable, settle, throats
«I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Mankind,
Society
| Keywords:
happier, Human history, individuals, individual differences, periods, rarely, such as
«I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Mankind,
Unity
| Keywords:
boundaries, orders
«I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.»
«I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Freedom,
Hate,
Mankind,
Mind
| Keywords:
den, raging, roaring, struggling, The Everlasting
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