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“If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.”

Ifs Years Heart Would Be Age Mankind Thousand Standing Remains Conservative Intellect Thousand Years Commonplace Great Conservative

Book:Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source: Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne

“What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!”

Source: Zoe: The History of Two Lives

“People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.”

People Years Ideas Reason Dream Mankind Strange Planets Couple Thousand Destruction Disappear Seats Destroying Fades Thousand Years Fade Away

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another 100,000 years?" In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.”

Years Found Interesting Mankind Thousand Scientist Critical Phrases Thousand Years Entering Very Interesting Calculations

Author:Werner Herzog

“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”

“Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.”

Ifs Years Wells Fighting Mankind Thousand Ten Excuse Thousand Years No Excuses Years Of Experience

Author:T. E. Lawrence

“From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade.”

Source: The Quotable Feynman