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What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.
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fulfillment
potential
humankind
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William Shakespeare |
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Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.
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nature
people
greed
fear
life
journy
ambition
humankind
emotions
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Brian L. Weiss |
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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humankind
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.
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earth
live
nature
way
force
method
mold
remake
shatter
style
humankind
break
human-beings
humans
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Robin Hobb |
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The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer
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natural-order
humankind
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Dan Simmons |
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This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.
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pettiness
humankind
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Dennis Lehane |
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"The history of mankind," said Dreed, "has been a history of betrayals, the perennial betrayal of the common man by the men he has trusted." "By the men the lazy, haphazard, childish oaf was too wilfully stupid to mistrust," said Bodisham. "The history of mankind from the very beginning has been a history of over-trusted trustees, corrupted by their unchecked opportunities."
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trust
leaders
corruption
humankind
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H.G. Wells |
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"And suddenly he became almost lyric. "For three thousand years the Common Man has been fended off from the full and glorious life he might have had, by Make Believe. For three thousand years in one form or another he has been asking for an unrestricted share in the universal welfare. He has been asking for a fair dividend from civilisation. For all that time, and still it goes on, the advantaged people, the satisfied people, the kings and priests, the owners and traders, the gentlefolk and the leaders he trusted, have been cheating him tacitly or deliberately, out of his proper share and contribution in the common life. Sometimes almost consciously, sometimes subconsciously, cheating themselves about it as well. When he called upon God, they said 'We'll take care of your God for you', and they gave him organised religion. When he calls for Justice, they say 'Everything decently and in order', and give him a nice expensive Law Court beyond his means. When he calls for order and safety too loudly they hit him on the head with a policeman's truncheon. When he sought knowledge, they told him what was good for him. And to protect him from the foreigner, so they said, they got him bombed to hell, trained him to disembowel his fellow common men with bayonets and learn what love of King and Country really means. "All with the best intentions in the world, mind you. "Most of these people, I tell you, have acted in perfect good faith. They manage to believe that in sustaining this idiot's muddle they are doing tremendous things -- stupendous things -- for the Common Man. They can live lives of quiet pride and die quite edifyingly in an undernourished, sweated, driven and frustrated world. Useful public servants! Righteous self-applause! Read their bloody biographies!"
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humanity
order
humankind
justice
power
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H.G. Wells |
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"Con las palabras todo cuidado es poco, mudan de opinion como las personas"."
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words
fiction
literature-communication
opinion
humankind
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José Saramago |
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The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.
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time
men
nature
world
people
human
change
prosperity
beasts
creatures
humankind
animals
take
wild
growth
destroy
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Robin Hobb |