"Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large."
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"That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person."
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"Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in."
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"I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin and Trotsky revolution, Newton and Halley the shape of the universe, or when Darwin entertained Huxley and Lyell at Down."
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"Remember, no matter what you background is and what your current circumstances are, you have the capacity to take action. This is one of the golden threads of humanity - we all have the power to act in a way that will improve the quality of our lives."
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"Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty."
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"That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity."
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"I remember that grand word of the Katha Upanishad - Shraddhâ or marvellous faith. An instance of Shraddha can be found in the life of Nachiketâ. To preach the doctrine of Shraddha or genuine faith is the mission of my life. Let me repeat to you that this faith is one of the potent factors of humanity and of all religions. First, have faith in yourselves."
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"Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity."
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"At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness."
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"[David Tennant's] Doctor has such humanity, he seems to understand us and he's very warm, so he's a comforting Doctor to be with, and he enables us to be slightly scarier than we had been."
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"Where you have a villain in the piece or the antagonist, whatever you want to call them, there has to be humanity at the core of it or it's faintly ridiculous. Nobody is just villain through and through. You have to feel something for them."
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"But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people."
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"I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind."
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"The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service."
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"I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity."
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"For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity."
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"Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'."
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"In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity."
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"Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love."
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