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| Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. (Mark Twain Following the Equator) |
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| I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. (Oscar Wilde) |
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| Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. (Ogden Nash) |
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| Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. (Samuel Butler) |
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| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman) |
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| It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. (Henry Allen) |
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| All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. (Samuel Butler Notebooks 1912) |
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| What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. (Havelock Ellis) |
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| The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
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| I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. (Blaise Pascal) |
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| It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. (Bertrand Russell) |
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| I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. (Joseph Baretti) |
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| Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. (Russell Baker) |
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| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (George Bernard Shaw) |
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| The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. (Thomas Paine) |
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| Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. (Plato) |
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| You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. (Mahatma Gandhi) |
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| So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. (Andre Gide) |
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| Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. (Sir Winston Churchill) |
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| The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. (Don Marquis) |
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| The fates have given mankind a patient soul. (Homer The Iliad) |
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| Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. (Julian Jaynes) |
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| As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. (Samuel Johnson) |
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| One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. (William Feather) |
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| Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice. (Max Nordau) |
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