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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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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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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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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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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Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.
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Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.
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Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
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Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.
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The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it.
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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.
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There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
