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“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.”

Nature Mankind Industry Labor Rewards Proportion Industrious

Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.”

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Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”

“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.”

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Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society. The security, progress and welfare of one group is measured finally in the security, progress and welfare of all mankind.”

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Author:Lewis B. Schwellenbach

“The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.”

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Author:Luc de Clapiers

“We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment, can we hope to attain to a comprehension of 'the wisdom of the body and the understanding of the heart,' and thereby to the mastery of disease and pain, which will enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.”

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Author:Ernest Starling