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• The diagnosis is clear, the science in unequivocal-it's completely immoral, even, to question now, on the basis of what we know, the reports that are out, to question the issue and to question whether we need to move forward at a much stronger pace as humankind to address the issues.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Moving, Science, Issues

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• But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Basketball, Girl, Hate

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• Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

  Gary Snyder

  Adventure, Humility, Walking Meditation

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.19, Counterpoint Press

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• I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Independent, Men, Hazards

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

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• Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

  John Stuart Mill

  Equality, Tolerance, Suffering

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.27

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• I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

  John Wilmot

  Dog, Animal, Proud

  John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2006). “The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester”, p.23, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.

  Rene Dubos

  Mean, Remembrance, Earth

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• Humankind can't stand too much reality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Teaching, Reality, Too Much

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• Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

  Bertrand Russell

  Prosperity, Mankind

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.97, Routledge

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• He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Education, Religious, Building Up

  D. H. Lawrence, David Farmer, David R. Farmer, Lindeth Vasey, John Worthen (1987). “Women in Love”, p.495, Cambridge University Press

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• Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hatred, Violence, Overcoming

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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• The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Wheels, Misery, Pleasure

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• We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.

  Al Gore

  Eugenics, Suffering, Environmental

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• Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but this time on a universal scale, humankind is seeking no less than its reunion with 'divine,' its transcendence into higher forms of life.

  Robert Muller

  Prayer, Book, Oneness

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• The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Inspiring, Freedom, Party

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it.

  Jacques Chirac

  Eye, Responsibility, Fighting

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• Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Form, Human Condition

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.669

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• What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

  Anatole France

  Past, Men, Civilization

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• A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

  Aldous Huxley

  Strong, Men, Air

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• A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.343

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• Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Two, Suffering

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

  George Santayana

  Reality, Class, Two

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

  Joseph Addison

  Women, Gravity, Vivacity

  "Complete Works of Joseph Addison".

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• Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Misfits, Metaphysical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

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• Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

  Saadi

  Secret, Scandal, Failing

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