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Quotations by Subject: Mankind (28 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)
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If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.: Emerson Pugh
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.: Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
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The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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There are too many people, and too few human beings.: Robert Zend
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2

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