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Letter "M" » Mankind
«The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
composing, individuals, in the long run, long run, The Long, The Long Run, The State
«The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar»
«The true science and study of man is man.»
«The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
avenues, Avenue of, benefactor, benefactors, esteemed, inoffensive, obstruction, obstructions, open up, prospect, remove, sweetest, The Avenue
«The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.»
Author: Leo Burnett
(Executive)
| About:
Advertising,
Dreams,
Hope,
Mankind,
Needs,
Team work,
Work
| Keywords:
advertising agencies, advertising agency, agency, assembly line, deals, line of work, product line, turned out, warmly
«The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.»
«The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
beautiful, called, call at, call out, call up, disease, has, has a, man, man of the world, The Calling, the world, world
«The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-heap and a soul roasting in hell»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mankind,
Truth
| Keywords:
agony, ash, atom, chunk, chunks, heap, ponderable, represents, roasting, seeker, The Seekers, toil
«The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Achievement,
Mankind
| Keywords:
attain, attains, longs, significance
«The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune»
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