“There ain't no man can avoid being born average. But there ain't no man got to be common.”
Satchel Paige (1906–1982) American baseball player and coach; Negro Leagues
"Words of the Week" Jet (Sep 4, 1958)
“The average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if he can.”
Source: The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), p. 33; Essence of Theory X
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Ray Kurzweil (1948) Author, scientist, inventor, and futurist
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Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) American violinist and conductor
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“We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2015, Address to the People of India (January 2015)
Context: Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) American journalist
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“There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
“The inherent contradiction of human life has now reached an extreme degree of tension”
Leo Tolstoy A Letter to a Hindu
Source: A Letter to a Hindu (1908), VI
Context: The inherent contradiction of human life has now reached an extreme degree of tension: on the one side there is the consciousness of the beneficence of the law of love, and on the other the existing order of life which has for centuries occasioned an empty, anxious, restless, and troubled mode of life, conflicting as it does with the law of love and built on the use of violence. This contradiction must be faced, and the solution will evidently not be favourable to the outlived law of violence, but to the truth which has dwelt in the hearts of men from remote antiquity: the truth that the law of love is in accord with the nature of man. But men can only recognize this truth to its full extent when they have completely freed themselves from all religious and scientific superstitions and from all the consequent misrepresentations and sophistical distortions by which its recognition has been hindered for centuries.