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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson

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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. – Samuel Johnson

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Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints. – Oswald Chambers

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The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. – Hungarian Proverb

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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. – Christopher Morley, Human Being

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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors. – Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations

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And its here and its ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and Im committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal – to pound this message home. Now is the time. – LeVar Burton

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I know what youre going to say! They are men, and men should be free. A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use. – Dave Sim

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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming. – Garrett Hardin

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