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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Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.
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The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.
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I just like the process of taking something written on a sheet of paper and giving it life and shape. I like the collaborative process of filmmaking, which is all simply to say that I love my work and I would continue to look for things that have the potential to be engaging and successful.
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Like many survivors it has taken me years to understand the impact upon my life. At some point we realize that we trusted someone we should have feared and we fear those genuine relationships that we should trust.
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There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
