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Quote by Samuel Johnson
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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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. – Samuel Johnson

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[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. – Samuel Johnson

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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. – William Ralph Inge

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Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind. – Terri Guillemets

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In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark. – Arthur Koestler

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The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. – Benjamin Disraeli

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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. – William James

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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. – Arnold Bennett

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A film that I love is Raising Arizona and thats funny but its quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. Id love to do something like that. Who knows? – Stephen Moyer

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Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didnt. You either moved an abandoned car or you didnt. You either filled a pothole or you didnt. Thats what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done. – Michael Nutter

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