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Mankind

«Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.»
«Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.»
«Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.»
Author: George William Curtis | About: Mankind | Keywords: Leonidas, Thermopylae
«Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.»
«Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.»
«Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.»
«Etiquette requires us to admire the human race»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Etiquette, Mankind | Keywords: etiquette
«Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Mankind | Keywords: exalted, throne
«Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Mankind | Keywords: ancestors, king, kings, slave, slaves, springs
«Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.»
Author: William Saroyan (Writer) | About: Mankind

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