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    A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will read more

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings

by Dave Barry Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

by Roy Chapman Andrews Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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He held his seat; a friend to human race.

He held his seat; a friend to human race.

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An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path.
But he read more

An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path.
But he that has humanity, forewarned,
Will turn aside and let the reptile live.

by William Cowper Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, read more

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe read more

Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.

by Paul West Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

by Denis Diderot Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

by Albert Einstein Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

by Miguel De Cervantes Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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