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Letter "M" » Mankind
«My mind to me a kingdom is; Such present joys therein I find that it excels all other bliss that earth affords or grows by kind»
«My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions»
Author: Elayne Boosler
(Activist, Comedian)
| About:
Guidance,
Mankind,
Wilderness
| Keywords:
biblical, directions, the Wilderness, wandered, wilderness
«Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm»
Author: Jeremy Bentham
(Activist, Philosopher)
| About:
Effort,
Government,
Mankind,
Nature,
Pain,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
confirm, demonstrate, pain and pleasure, sovereign, subjection, throw off
«Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.»
«Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older»
«Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Authority,
Freedom,
Mankind
| Keywords:
assurances, consoling, economy, Economy of, preferred
«Most people would rather give than get affection.»
«My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
amusements, banished, daughters, employed, exercising, implemented, implementing, implements, my first, plague, pleasing, preparing, Sons and Daughters
«Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Luxury,
Mankind
| Keywords:
comforts, elevation, hindrance, hindrances, indispensable, luxuries, positive, so-called, The So
«My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Life,
Love,
Mankind
| Keywords:
activities, All My, indivisible, insatiable, run into
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