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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The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.
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This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue.
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Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.
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Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who could be described as neither), it would become the responsibility of all of us to change the conditions of reception so that the public might begin to distinguish between criticism of Israel and a hatred of Jews.
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My work became a bridge that had to be crossed by young feminists working with their bodies.
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There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
