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Quotations by Subject: Mankind (28 quotes)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and it expires.: Michael J. Mosley and Nicholas Rossiter, The Human Face, 2001
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Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! and unfortunately, there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Results from Classic Quotes:

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 1931
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), December 11, 1964
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Gold Bug
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.: Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana, 2004
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