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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
Humanity

"What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun."

Life Humanity Promise
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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist
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"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow."

Men Animal Humanity
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure."

Desire Humanity Pleasure
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Robert Anton Wilson Author, Philosopher
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"Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below."

Thinking Sex Humanity
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Stefan Zweig Writer
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"But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself."

Truth Humanity Heroic Deeds
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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?"

Giving Humanity Pride
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Gail Simone Comic Book Writer
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"I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she's of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there's so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship."

Humanity Fate Cancer
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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
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"Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?"

Hate Humanity Tears
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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
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"We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems."

Men Science Humanity
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