"As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before."

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart on Humankind
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"Boldness is a mask for fear, however great."

Lucan, F. L. on Boldness
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"Genuis flows through the most improbable portals"

Blum, Donald on Adonybus
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"Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution."

Bacon, Francis on Boldness
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"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."

Dickinson, Emily on Boldness
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"Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge."

Blake, William on Humankind
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"Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]"

Bible on Humankind
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"Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance."

Baumgardy, R. M. on Humankind
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"If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it."

Baudrillard, Jean on Humankind
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"Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us."

Bacon, Francis on Humankind
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"I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on Humankind
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"Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it."

Antonius, Marcus on Humankind
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"Man is an ape with possibilities."

Andrews, Roy Chapman on Humankind
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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

Adams, Douglas on Humankind
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"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

Moore, George on Reality
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"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on Humankind
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"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

Einstein, Albert on Mathematics
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"The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it -- the speed of his acceptance."

White, Elwyn Brooks on Nuclear Age
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"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."

Churchill, Winston on Humankind
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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Humankind
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"Man is a two-legged animal without feathers."

Plato on Humankind
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"The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness."

Truman, Harry S on Nuclear Age
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"There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation alter nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again."

Paglia, Camille on Nuclear Age
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"What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined."

Macleish, Archibald on Nuclear Age
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"Man is a being in search of meaning."

Plato on Humankind
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"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."

Disraeli, Benjamin on Humankind
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"Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

Dante Alighieri on Humankind
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"Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident."

Dahlberg, Edward on Humankind
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"To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them."

Crowley, Aleister on Humankind
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"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink"

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Humankind
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"Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse."

Cervantes, Miguel De on Humankind
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"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."

Caulfield, Holden on Humankind
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"Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics."

Camus, Albert on Politicians and Politics
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"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time."

Eliot, T. S. on Exploration
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"Caring is a powerful business advantage."

Johnson, Scott on Caring
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"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

Reagan, Ronald on Politicians and Politics
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"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Philosophers and Philosophy
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"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."

Pascal, Blaise on Infallibility
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"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."

Pascal, Blaise on Freedom
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"To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher."

Pascal, Blaise on Philosophers and Philosophy
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