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 The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world
  Emma Goldman

 The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add a few surprising customs of my own invention, but nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth.

 The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts

 The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
  Meister Eckhart

 The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses

 The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
  Martin Luther

 The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune
  William Penn

 There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter-albeit with less convenience.
  Nora Ephron

 There are two kinds of people in this world - those who divide everything into two and those who don't
  Robert Benchley

 There is no dunce like a mature dunce
  George Santayana

 There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his
  Helen Keller

 There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths
  Bertrand Russell

 There will be vice as long as there are men

 Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 To fly from, need not be to hate mankind
  Lord Byron


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