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Letter "M" » Mankind
«We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire»
«What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures [but] that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.»
«We must be our own before we can be another's.»
«We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
Creator, endowed, endowing, endows, equal, evident, inalienable, Inalienable rights, liberty, pursuit, rights, right to liberty, right to the pursuit of happiness, self evident, The Pursuit of Happiness, truths, well endowed
«What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.»
Author: Bruce Barton
(Congressman)
| About:
Death and dying,
Liberty,
Mankind,
Slavery,
World
| Keywords:
bondage, phenomenon, To Die For
«Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
God,
Individuality,
Mankind
| Keywords:
despotism, enforcing, individuality, injunction, injunctions, professes
«We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.»
Author: Walter Winchell
| About:
Goodness,
Mankind,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
indulge, unfavorable, views
«What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!»
«What destroys one man preserves another»
«We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of hap»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
derive, hap, Inalienable rights, undeniable
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