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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs w

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. – Francis Bacon

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God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. – Francis Bacon

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon

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Generosity
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Man is an ape with possibilities. – Roy Chapman Andrews

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Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance. – R. M. Baumgardy

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There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece. – Dave Barry

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Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. – James Baldwin

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