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  Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

  Louis Pasteur

  Country, Science, Technology

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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• Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Animal, Men, Reason

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• To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

  James Madison

  Errors, Media, Abuse

  James Madison, Thomas Jefferson (1826). “Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky”, p.51

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• To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

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• Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

  John Ralston Saul

  Exercise, Exaltation, Needs

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Abiding, Paper, Virtue

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• There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.

  Dan Simmons

  Dream, Soul, Doubt

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.115, Spectra

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• Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

  Ayn Rand

  Future, Past, Society

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.30, Penguin

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• By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Taken, Men, Done

  Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin in Paolo Novaresio "The Explorers: From the Ancient World to the Present", October 1, 1996.

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• The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

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• Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

  Immanuel Kant

  Made, Timber, Crooked

  "Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose" by Immanuel Kant, (Proposition 6), 1784.

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• The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Unity, Behaviour, Way

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• Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.

  Allan Boesak

  Philosophy, Fall, Biblical

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

  Alan Shepard

  Peace, Fighting, Space

  "What Does Moon Flight Mean Now" by Josh Getlin, The Seattle Times, p. A10, July 19, 1994.

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  I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Faith, Peace

  "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.

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• If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

  Jonas Salk

  Life, Years, Earth

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• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life, Inspiring, Failure

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.590, Vintage

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• You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Single, Cells, People

  Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Gospel is not about man searching for GOD but GOD reaching out to mankind!

  Lou Engle

  God, Christian, Men

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• Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.

  Marsden Wagner

  Baby, Women, Mean

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• Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.

  Roy Baumeister

  Running, Animal, Discipline

  "Why willpower matters – and how to get it" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.

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• We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

  Antonio Guterres

  People, Choices, Immigration

  "U.N. Refugee Chief: Europe's Response to Mediterranean Crisis Is 'Lagging Far Behind'". time.com. April 23, 2015.

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• For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest continue the course of creation's destiny. And in this we mere humans can take part-by fitting our civilization to the mountain.

  Benton MacKaye

  Nature, Destiny, Civilization

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• I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.

  Francois Fenelon

  Country, My Family

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• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stars, Ignorance, Ignorant

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