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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Humanity

"We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of our families. This is how we can create a more peaceful world."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Humanity

"Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Humanity

"I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Humanity

"When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should be considered as a family conflict. We must find a solution within this atmosphere."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Humanity

"Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life."

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Ban Ki-moon Diplomat
Humanity

"For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon. But the danger posed by war to all humanity-and to our planet-is at least matched by climate change."

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Ban Ki-moon Diplomat
Humanity

"People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Humanity

"Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality will eventually disclose its falseness; however, unless the basic delusion of it is seen for what it is, it will be replaced by others."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Humanity

"The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Humanity

"Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Humanity

"I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Humanity

"Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
Humanity

"As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity."

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