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A curious part of the human psyche is that the moment that a person presumed to be in danger is discovered to be safe, everyone's anxiety turns into anger.

—Samuel Johnson

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I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

—Thomas Paine

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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

—Woodrow Wilson

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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.

—Unknown

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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

—Unknown

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People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.

—Unknown

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In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

—Unknown

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

—Rudyard Kipling

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Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts. . . . To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that.

—Albert Schweitzer

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It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

—Voltaire

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It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country,
but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but
one country and mankind its citizens.

—Bahá'u'lláh

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I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

—Charles M. Schulz

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The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

—Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

—Friedrich Schiller

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