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Letter "M" » Mankind
«A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor»
«A hungry man is not a free man.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
Freedom,
Hunger,
Mankind
| Keywords:
free man
«As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.»
«A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers»
«A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.»
«As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| About:
Mankind,
Military,
Vice
| Keywords:
benefactors, bestow, destroyers, exalted, The Vice
«A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| About:
Body,
Imagination,
Mankind,
Memory,
Mind,
Soul,
Work
| Keywords:
As of, at work, energies, exercising, wills
«A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
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«A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Atheism,
Mankind,
Men,
Religion
| Keywords:
adding, gathered, modification, modifications, painfully, shaping, undergoing
«As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Community,
Government,
Liberty,
Mankind
| Keywords:
Among the, apt, civil, community, entitled, equally, foremost, liberal, liberality, members, protections
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