#mankind

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent. ↗

— Fannie Farmer

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#circumstances #civil #color #discriminating #distinguishing

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend. ↗

— Andreas Capellanus

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It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

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For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

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Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another! ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#disagreement #dreams #faith #future #hopes

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

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When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

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