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  • Bernard of Clairvaux The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Carl Sandburg The people know the salt of the sea
    and the strength of the winds
    lashing the corners of the earth.
    The people take the earth
    as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
    Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
    Source: The People, Yes (1936)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Benjamin Graham The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
    Source: Storage and Stability Part V, Ch. XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition,
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
    Source: Once Around the Sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Leigh Hunt The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Stokely Carmichael The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • George Santayana The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The pleasures of ignorance are as great in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Francis Bacon The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Benazir Bhutto The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Plautus The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Albert J. Nock The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Winston Churchill The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Malthus The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
    Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) VII, 20, 2-4
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • James Baldwin The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • C. J. Mahaney The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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