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• Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

  Robert Breault

  Angel, Race, Demon

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• A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Creativity, Exercise, People

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• The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

  Paul Hawken

  Philosophy, Creative, Promise

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• As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.

  Charles Bolden

  Book, Long, Steps

  NASA Administrator Statement on Neil Armstrong's Death, www.nasa.gov. August 25, 2012.

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• ...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the same time has a fatherly concern for humankind. Though God has lowered Himself to being that which can be chosen, yet each person must on his part choose. God is not mocked. Therefore the matter stands thus: If a person avoids choosing, this is the same as the presumption of choosing the world.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Honor, World

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• Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so to say, on the same level of choice with the world, just so that we may be able to choose; that God, if language dare speak thus, woos humankind - that He, the eternally strong one, woos sapless humanity? Yet, how insignificant is the young lover's choice between her pursuers by comparison with this choice between God and the world.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Strong, Expression

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• The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Race, News

  Nelson Mandela's Speech at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference, db.nelsonmandela.org. April 3, 1994.

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• If you think you have no power over what happens in the outside world, this is a belief and an agreement you have made between yourself and the field of existence. Your cells hear this command about your place in reality and do everything possible to make certain, in whatever situation you meet, that you have no power over events. Your beliefs establish the instructions for how you want to operate your biological being, and in these times of tremendous acceleration, humankind is faced with the responsibility of learning how to manage the energy of thought

  Barbara Marciniak

  Responsibility, Reality, Thinking

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• Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Thinking, Views, Land

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• Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

  Thomas Paine

  Wickedness, Age Of Reason, Sincerely

  Thomas Paine (1934). “The Works of Thomas Paine: His Epoch-making Writings in Religion, Government, Human Rights and International Relations”, New York : .H. Wise

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• Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Ifs

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• I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s planet, as if pretending that Climate Change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Real, Believe, Going Away

  "Leonardo DiCaprio at the UN: 'Climate change is not hysteria - it's a fact" by Leonardo DiCaprio, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

  Maya Angelou

  Rivers, Tree, Today

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer”, p.8, Random House

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• Listen to the long stillness:
  New life is stirring
  New dreams are on the wing
  New hopes are being readied:
  Humankind is fashioning a new heart
  Humankind is forging a new mind
  God is at work.
  This is the season of Promise

  Howard Thurman

  Dream, Heart, Wings

  Howard Thurman (1985). “The Mood of Christmas”

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• Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

  Qiu Miaojin

  Soul, Spirit, Artistic

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• Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

  Walter Scott

  Race, Mutual Help, Fellow Man

  "Tales of My Landlord: With the Author's Last Notes and Additions and a Glossary".

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• The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed a contract with the devil, and had become witches. We still kill more than a thousand people each year for witchcraft. In my view, there is only one hope for humankind to emerge from what Carl Sagan called "the demon-haunted world" of our past. That hope is science.

  Michael Crichton

  Science, Past, Years

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• Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but they cannot completely ignore their physical needs. It is for this reason that I have always stressed the importance of combining both mental and the material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Mind, Stressed

  Dalai Lama, Herbert Benson, Robert Thurman, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman (2012). “MindScience: An East-West Dialogue”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Dream, Reality, Civilization

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “Footsteps”, Penguin Group USA

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• Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

  Tim Minchin

  Understanding, Acquisition, Body

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

  Tillie Olsen

  Daughter, Sea, Long

  Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.298, Rutgers University Press

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• See yourself as a pioneer in a new world. We are not facing the end of the world, as some would have us believe, but the greatest adventure of our lives. We have the unique opportunity to write a new chapter in the history of humankind, to be active participants in shaping a new world.

  Jed Diamond

  Believe, Writing, Adventure

  Jed Diamond PhD (2012). “Men Alive: Stop Killer Stress with Simple Energy Healing Tools”, p.207, BookBaby

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• If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do know what to do about it-pray about it, talk about it, feel the fear, and do it anyway. Artistic fear, on the other hand, sounds somehow nastier and more virulent, like it just might not yield to ordinary solutions-and yet it does, the moment we become humble enough to try ordinary solutions.

  Julia Cameron

  Fear, Humble, Yield

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• In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Teaching, Islamic, Race

  Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan. Directorate of Films & Publications (2008). “Speeches and Statements: Oct. 1993-Nov. 1996”

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• When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.

  Eugene Odum

  Optimistic, Challenges, Together

  Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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