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    Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

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But hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.

But hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.

by William Wordsworth Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will read more

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings

by Dave Barry Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen,
is that she asks nothing for herself except what she read more

For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen,
is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right
to ask for humanity itself.

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Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

by Kalan Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

by Mark Twain Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

by Albert Einstein Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and read more

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.

by Jean Baudrillard Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the read more

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

by Storm Jameson Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen read more

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.

by Willa Cather Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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