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“Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.”

Want Needs Past Ability Mankind Ideals Competence Unattainable Past Present Past Present And Future

Author:Russell L. Ackoff

“Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful. By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.”

Mean Energy Social Ability Economic Mankind Seeking Recognition Capability Equations

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through "asexuality" ("without sexual desire or activity or lacking any apparent sex or sex organs"). Each of them split in half.”

Years Kind Desire Sex Ability Half Millions Mankind Activity Female Males Organs Splits Lacking Sexual Desire Reproducing

Book:Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution

Source: Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution

“What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.”

Made Dream America Ability Mankind

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Matter Remember Human Beings Ability Animal Mankind Intelligence Immortal

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.”

World Action Ability Mankind Sufficient Admiration

Book:The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes

Source: The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes

“I believe the power to make money is a gift from God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.”

Believe Used I Believe Ability Mankind Making Money Gift From God

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.”

Men Art War Problem Turns Ability Moral Poverty Progress Mankind Survival Solutions Harmony Injustice Solve Practicals Dependent Art Of Living Scientific Progress

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is, the one thing that mankind developed was the ability to send their consciousness back and where a lot of the institutions of modern life have fallen apart.”

Thinking Shows Ability Consciousness One Thing Modern Mankind Institutions Fallen Hopeful Grants Modern Life Bleak

Author:Eric McCormack

“I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.”

Thinking Men Sometimes God Humor Funny Ability Mankind Creating Appreciation Sarcasm Sarcastic Greatest Atheist Wittiest Playing God

Book:Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations

Source: Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are, we all have the ability to take advantage of this amazing and wonderful power. Once you realize this, you will then be filled with the desire to help others realize this as well. More and more people are resonating with this understanding, and this could result in a more wonderful future for mankind. (165)”

Source: The Secret Life of Water

“Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because that is the first step to totalitarianism, toward unquestioned rule by the elite. And of course they see themselves as the elite.”