"How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?"

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Source : Joel Barlow, “ADVICe To A Raven In Russia (1812)”

Joel Barlow

#Left Behind Quotes #Mankind Quotes #Behinds Quotes

“I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.”
“When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great measure, from those embarrassments and depressions which I see afflicting many an author who waits for a mood instead of summoning it, and is the sport, instead of the master, of his own impressions and ideas.”
“The Web makes people hypocritical, it encourages to take pseudonymes”
“There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.”
“Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.”
“Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.”
“Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.”
“Let's give the historians something to write about”

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