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“You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.”

“Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming”; “Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche 'em out, you shark 'em, you put the fear of God in 'em”

Mankind Habit Losing Bases Cards Smoking Ems Sharks

Author:Puggy Pearson

“What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.”

Mankind Habit Obvious Inevitable Catastrophe Frustrating Really Amazing Unforeseen Muttering

Author:Isaac Asimov

“What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.”

Success Mankind Habit Succeed

Book:The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Source: The Collected Works of ... P. ...

“In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!”

Reason Remember Science Universe Sky Mankind Serious Habit Refuge Behalf Port Bad Habits

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila

“Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.”

Men Kind Literature Steps Mankind Habit Traps Bait

Book:Sweet Thursday

Source: Sweet Thursday

“Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.”

Thinking Mankind Habit Responsible Misery

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people's psychology with my own.”