"The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward."
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"I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology."
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"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."
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"The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living."
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"Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity."
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"The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself."
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"Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom"
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"Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."
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"Humanity is the sin of God"
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"My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself."
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"If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now."
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"Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity."
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"The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork."
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"I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity."
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"It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then."
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"Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible theories or a welter of flint chips."
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"Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own."
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"I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity."
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"I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity."
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"Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way."
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