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«Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection»
Author: John Powell
| About:
Mankind,
Rejection
| Keywords:
atmosphere, plants, rejection, rejections, soil
«Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Animals,
Children,
Mankind
| Keywords:
exception, humans, on purpose
«Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.»
«Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Learning,
Mankind
| Keywords:
almost, apparent, beings, disinclination, human beings, remarkable, unique
«I think that if mankind is an ongoing experiment , it would be better to start again from scratch.»
«I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.»
«Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own»
«I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.»
«I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.»
«Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Mankind
| Keywords:
disposed, disposes, dispose of, disposing, kindly, married person, marries, situations, well-disposed, young person
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