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People, Humanity, Mankind

"It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning
 no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening."
 Sue Monk Kidd

"A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." Talmud

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss

"People don't get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Each person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint. There are no two people alike...no two people who understand the same sentence the same way...So in dealing with people try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be." Milton Erickson

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

"On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers." Adlai E. Stevenson

"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor." Hubert H. Humphrey

"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." Carl Schurz

"Across the centuries, we have this timeless medicine: Live directly, wait, and care for your soul as if it were the whole world." Mark Nepo

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone." Blaise Pascal

"None of us is as smart as all of us." Ken Blanchard

"The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds." Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935

"Don't worry about knowing people; just make yourself worth knowing." Unknown

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