But you know that any showing of such an innovation is apt to start gossip. Just why, I don’t know. It, though, is a trait of Mankind only. Animals don’t ‘bloom’ out so abruptly. You can hunt through Biology, Zoology or any similar study, and find but slow, -awfully slow, – adaptations toward any form of variation. Hurrying was not known until Man got around. Ernest Vincent Wright
I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
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Dalai Lama Xiv
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Albert Camus
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Bertolt Brecht
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms....
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William Shakespeare
More Quotes By Ernest Vincent Wright
A human mind was built for contact with similar minds. It should, –in fact, –it must think about what is going on around it; for, if it is shut up in a thick, dark, bony box of a skull, it will always stay in that...
But that did no harm, and a sad young mind found a way to match things up with an antagonist. Now, just stand a child up against your body. How tall is it? Possibly only up to your hip. Still, a man, –or an animal...
All that did a big lot toward showing Youth that this big world is ‘not half bad, ’ if adults will but watch, aid, and coach. And I will not stand anybody’s snapping at a child! Particularly a tiny tot. If you think that you...
Now this is a most satisfactory and important thing to think about, for brutality will not, –cannot, –accomplish what a kindly disposition will; and, if folks could only know how quickly a “balky” child will, through loving and cuddling, grow into a charming, happy youth,...
If you would only stop rating a child’s ability by your own; and try to find out just what ability a child has, our young folks throughout this big world would show a surprisingly willing disposition to try things which would bring your approbation. A...
