William Macneile Dixon Quotes
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
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Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.
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In the long run, we must focus on what is the better good for mankind.
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I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
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Iraq will triumph and with Iraq will our Arab nation and mankind also triumph.
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I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"
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I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.
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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
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The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.
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Make the small big and the few many.
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The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we feel ‘to take them upon our shoulders.
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
