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• Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings, no matter how great the disparity.
  To withhold your scorn is already beautiful. To see how we are all of one family is compassion....
• Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest me
  with understanding sufficient for their stations....
• Bacteria acts more intelligent than human being
• America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery
  first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings. -- Edward Abbey...
• Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
• No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could more astonish the world than our declaration of war against Holland in 1672.
  -- Sir William Temple (1628-1699) -- Memoirs, Vol. ii, p. 255...
• A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity.
  If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery....
• It is inconceivable that a judicious observer from another solar system would see in our species -- which has tended to be cruel
  destructive, wasteful, and irrational -- the crown and apex of cosmic evolution....
• We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
  -- William Hazlitt, "On Cant and Hypocrisy...