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“India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.”

Art Humanity Cities Poverty Creativity Land Civilization India Enormous Plenty Uplifting Daily Life Village Magnificent Sparkle

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.”

People Persons Said Kids Wanted Humanity Land Hero Decided Importance My Hero Intersections Electronics Polaroids My Biography

Author:Steve Jobs

“One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.”

Source: Image and Imagination

“The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.”

Heart Joy Humanity Church Common Land Sweet Christmas Bells Sects Great Joy Common Humanity Chimes Church Bells

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.”

“I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word - care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.”

People Ifs Years Matter Enough Care Lasts Humanity Land Abuse No Matter What Opposition I Care Ridicule One Word Wildlife If You Care Future Of Humanity

Author:Allan Savory

“But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever has tobring about a discovery or deed which will further the cause of all of humanity, no longer has his home in his native land but rather in his work.”

Persons Different Home Law Humanity Causes Creativity Creative Land Subjects Higher Discovery Mere Deeds Native Creative Person Native Land Higher Law

Author:Stefan Zweig

“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.”

Ifs Stills Shows Humanity Fate Land Industry Aristocracy

Book:In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography

Source: In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography

“So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.”

Ifs Important Lasts Humanity Land Months Disappear Insects Dwelling Arthropods

Author:E. O. Wilson

“... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.”

Needs Littles War Real Humanity Differences Results Successful Taken Land Civilization Ultimate Indian Standpoint Treaties

Book:The war in the Northwest (cont'd). The Indian wars, 1784-1787. St. Clair and Wayne

Source: The war in the Northwest (cont'd). The Indian wars, 1784-1787. St. Clair and Wayne

“Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.”

Humanity Jesus Sin Sacrifice Land Resistance Stability Rome Threatened Distribution Nonviolent Resistance Sacrifice To God

Author:John Dominic Crossan

“I think that more and more young people are discovering that gainful employment isn't the only thing in life. That they can perhaps be just as useful to society and themselves by travelling across the land or around the world, learning more about humanity and going through the various experiences which will make their adulthood more productive.”

People Thinking World Young Humanity Land Various Employment Around The World Productive Discovering Things In Life Adulthood Learning More

Author:Pierre Trudeau