"I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please."
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"Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore"
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"I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream."
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"This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the most convincing of human experience that has ever been written...and those who heed that story will know their strength and happiness and success are all summed up in the exhortation, "Fear God and keep His commandments.""
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"Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity."
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"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."
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"The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate."
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"Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence."
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"Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity."
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"Humanity is the Son of God."
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"Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself."
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"The only real nation is humanity"
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"Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her."
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"The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another."
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"Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity ."
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"Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from."
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"In choosing not to be a beast, I discovered my humanity. I became autodidactic, self-educated - a critical thinker."
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"But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe."
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"I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity."
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"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
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