Mankind Quotes - Page 13

• The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

  Socrates

  Science, Blessing, Way

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• Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Wine, Biblical, Glasses

  "Bartender Wisdom: Mick Fleetwood Edition" by Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict, would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose.

  Louis J. Halle

  Space, Views, Common Purpose

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• Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Mean, Ignorance

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Magic, Dawn, Easy

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• The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

  Thomas Malthus

  Class, Economy, Higher

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• We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Priorities, World, Contradiction

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• The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Common

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• To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

  David Hume

  Stupidity, Events, Ordinary

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• We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Community, Choices

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• What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

  Francis Collins

  Powerful, Book, Science

  Francis Collins' remarks on the Completion of the First Survey of the Entire Human Genome Project in the East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov. June 26, 2000.

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• The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Reading, World, Pulse

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• Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

  Irving Langmuir

  Winning, Benefits, Recognition

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• All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

  Eisaku Sato

  War, Years, People

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• To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.

  William Tyndale

  Kids, Sight, Law

  William Tyndale (1848). “Doctrinal treatises and introductions to different portions of the Holy Scriptures”, p.354

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• When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Fall, People

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• Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.

  Criss Jami

  Atheist, Hands, Moral Behavior

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.74, Criss Jami

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• Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bird, Tree, Needs

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• The history of mankind is a history of war.

  Mike Love

  War

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• Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.

  Sappho

  Queens, Flower, Rose

  Pindar, Anacreon, Sappho, Musaeus (Grammaticus.) (1822). “The Odes of Pindar”, p.281

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• The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope.

  Benjamin Watson

  Giving, Tragedy, Eric

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.16, NavPress

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• A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Select, Please

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• Look at The Rock's competition! Look at him! It looks like a big monkey came down here, took a crap, and out came Mankind!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Rocks, Wwe, Competition

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• Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ancient, Infancy, All Things

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

  John Jay Chapman

  Vision, Doe, Armchairs

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Greek studies”

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