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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

Be ashamed to die until you have done something good for mankind.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

Bravery is not man's monopoly.

... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

Do not tell me you don’t know you’re pretty. If so, I’m about to lose all faith in mankind. You don’t want to be responsible for that.

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything he can't do, ever, or anything that he isn't going to do.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Free enterprise is the sure and so far the only known way of constantly improving the well-being of mankind.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

General consultant to mankind.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.