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"I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children."
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"In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself."
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"If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race."
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"The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life, therefore, is just as much a development out of what has gone before in the evolutionary process as physical life is; which means that the origin of spiritual life is from within."
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"Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity."
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"Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do."
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"The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose."
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"The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet."
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"No moral value is greater than humanity."
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"Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies."
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"Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself."
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"The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries."
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"It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world"
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"Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond the bounds of what is truly human."
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"I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential for making some contribution to humanity, I will comply in spite of being tired."
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"There are differences between us. But it doesn't make sense to emphasize that, because my future and yours is connected with everyone else's. So we have to take seriously our concern for all of humanity. When we focus on our individuality, humanity inevitably suffers. And once humanity suffers, each one of us will also suffer."
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"I one individual human being. One of the seven billion human being. I believe each of us, our future depends on the rest of humanity."
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"We can only transform humanity and create a happier more compassionate world through education."
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"We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient."
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