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«There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. [It is] when they are in love and reading a love letter.»
«There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
comfortable, contemptible, feeble, feebler, feeblest, myths, perils, the help, The Perils of
«The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.»
Author: Alice Walker
| About:
Animals,
Mankind
| Keywords:
animals, Animal World, black, black people, Black woman, humans, reasons, The Animals, white, white woman
«The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Constitution,
Equality,
Mankind
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, Britain, declaration, effecting, Great Britain, placed, practical, Practical effect, separation
«The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself»
«The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.»
«There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.»
«They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he is not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
God,
Mankind
| Keywords:
base, beasts, ignoble, kin, nobility
«There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.»
«There will be vice as long as there are men»
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