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“I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!”

“Throughout Ronnie's presidency, there was an ongoing public discussion as to how much influence the first lady should have on the president. It's hardly a new problem. As long as mankind has lived in groups, there's always been a question of how to handle the boss's wife.”

Should Firsts Long Problem President Wife Groups Influence Mankind Should Have Handle Discussion Boss Presidency Ongoing First Lady

Book:My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan

Source: My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan

“Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?”

Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.”

Should Mankind Should Have Regard Worthy Vanity Laughed Toys Sovereign Deities

Book:The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny

Source: The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny

“Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the question, "Can they report to you correctly on their behavior?" And the answer is, "No, the poor bastards cannot."”

Should Firsts Self Done Answers Poor Mankind Listening Behavior Should Have Reports Deluded

Author:Bill Mollison

“The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.”

Should Matter Science Sex Generations Mystery Mankind Should Have Species Clay Reproduction

Author:Martin Luther

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”

Should God Work Quality Technology Mankind Dying Should Have Excellence Last Words Offended Dying Death Famous Last Words Dying Last Words People Dying Funny Famous Last Words Offended You

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“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

“The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)”

“Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”

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Author:Alan Moore