"But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity."
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"In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?"
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"But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine."
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"Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives."
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"If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development."
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"If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other."
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"One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity."
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"While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves."
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"When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity"
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"My mission is to tell the story of the birth of ourselves as a universal humanity, awakening all of us to our unique opportunity to participate through our own conscious evolution."
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"Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen."
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"In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity."
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"In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human."
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"As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity."
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"It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming."
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"When you express your unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, you create abundance in your life and the lives of others."
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"No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice."
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"Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict."
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"Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill."
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"Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used."
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