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1. "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

Victor Frankl

2. "No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."

Christopher Morley

3. "Takers may sometimes eat better, but givers always sleep better."

Anon.

4. "Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake."

Victor Frankl

Quotations about: Good and Evil

5. "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Various

6. "Like the sunflower, it is our nature to turn always toward the light."

Dorothy Mendoza Row

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

7. "Man is the result of God's experiments with artificial intelligence."

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Quotations about: God and Religion

8. "Man is designed as a perfect device. However, some copies behave as if the manufacturer has forgotten to connect them with all the circuits."

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Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

9. "To grow you need to understand that the most important word in the world is not the word "me"."

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Quotations about: Egoism -:- Youth and Age

10. "If there is no God, man is most unfortunate freak of nature. "

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Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Nature and Animals

11. "Nothing joins two people as much as a joint mortgage."

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Quotations about: Richness and Money

12. "Some people live as if Copernicus did not exist - they think that everything revolves around them. "

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Quotations about: Egoism

13. "Sex is a trap set by nature to ensure the survival of our species."

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Quotations about: Love -:- Nature and Animals

14. "Some people are like clouds, when they disappear, it is a brighter day."

Anon.

15. "Man is not the creature of circumstance. Circumstances are the creatures of men."

Benjamin Disraeli

Quotations about: Various

16. "Man is the only animal crazy enough to climb a summit merely to prove he can do it."

Anon.

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

17. "Character is what you are in the dark."

Dwight L. Moody

18. "To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

19. "It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed."

George VI, (Radio broadcast, September 23, 1940)

Quotations about: Various

20. "Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."

Jean Genet, "Notes for The Screens"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

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21. "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."

William Hazlitt, "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

22. "Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."

Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham, Speech to the House of Commons

Quotations about: Education

23. "There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Love

24. "... the great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind."

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Life and Death

25. "Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Happiness

26. "Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals."

Pierre De Beaumarchais, "Le Mariage de Figaro"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

27. "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."

Samuel Johnson

Quotations about: Good and Evil

28. "Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"

29. "Every man is his own hell."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

30. "If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."

Zig Ziglar

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Manners and Ethics

31. "If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Nature and Animals

32. "Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."

Samuel Beckett

Quotations about: Art and Culture

33. "The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."

Edward Gibbon, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

34. "The human race never solves any of its problems. It merely outlives them."

David Gerrold

Quotations about: Question and Problem

35. "Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality."

William Hazlitt, "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

36. "Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity."

Vera Brittain, "The Rebel Passion"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

37. "Good men are like wine, some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

Pope John XXIII

Quotations about: Youth and Age -:- Good and Evil

38. "True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Various

39. "The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Various

40. "Maybe there is a beast.... maybe it's only us."

William Golding, "Lord of the Flies"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

41. "Our technology has surpassed our humanity."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Science and Technology

42. "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Quotations about: Various

43. "Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Various

44. "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

Thomas Browne, "Urn Burial"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

45. "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."

Edwin Powell Hubble

Quotations about: Science and Technology

46. "Men have become tools of their tools."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Science and Technology

47. "God created Adam and Eve - not Adam and Steve."

Anon.

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics -:- Various

48. "Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Torquato Tasso"

Quotations about: Various -:- Talent and Genius

49. "All gods and devils that have ever existed are within us."

Hermann Hesse, "Reflections"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

50. "A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself."

Georges Clemenceau

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

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