Herbert Spencer Quotes
Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating.
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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The Liberal party has been in power throughout this entire scandalous affair. And Mr. Martin, to my knowledge, has been a very senior Liberal.
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The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.
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Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.
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Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.
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I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.
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Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.
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Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.
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We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.
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The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.
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Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!
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Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
