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«It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.»
Author: Ben Stein
(Actor, Lawyer, Writer)
| About:
Defeat,
Life,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
defeated, enter, finished, inevitable, surrenders, victorious
«In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India»
«It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.»
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
(Novelist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
besets, besetting, democracies, exhibit, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, public opinion, usual
«It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Courage,
History,
Injustice,
Inspiration,
Mankind
| Keywords:
Acts, Against the man, against time, belief, diverse, forth, Human history, ideal, improve, injustice, injustices, numberless, ripple, rippled, ripples, rippling, sends, shaped, stands, strikes, strike out, tiniest
«It is good for man To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish, not to go down the dinosaur's way Until all his capacities have been explored: and it is good for him To know that his needs and nature are no more changed, in fact, in ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles.»
«In the dark all men were the same color. In the dark our fellow man was seen more clearly than in the normal light of a New York night.»
Author: Stephen P. Kennedy
| About:
America and Americans,
Mankind
| Keywords:
In The Dark, The Normal
«It ain't just a question of misunderstood, Deep down inside him, he's no good»
«It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
sympathy
«It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility»
«It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
infelicity, miseries, uninstructed
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