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  • I am also sanguine with General George S. Patton loved a good fight and knew that there are times in history when men must destroy men and nations destroy nations in this epic struggle we call humanity.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza 2010

  • It descends, I believe, from the contemporary degradation of the word humanity.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • These are the weapons that can end the grand evolutionary experiment (or God's handiwork, if you like) that we call humanity.

    Tom H. Hastings: Nukes versus Humanity 2009

  • It descends, I believe, from the contemporary degradation of the word humanity.

    Less than God, excelling other creatures 2009

  • Fargeas must have known Prince Zilah's character well when he used the word humanity.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Fargeas must have known Prince Zilah's character well when he used the word humanity.

    Prince Zilah — Complete Jules Claretie 1876

  • He hates and envies every thing that rises above the vulgar level: all superiority, all individual grandeur, seems to him an iniquity, an injury towards that chaos of undistinguished and ephemeral beings whom he calls humanity.

    The Friendships of Women William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • You are projecting your individual will to survive on to something you call humanity.

    Drudge Retort 2009

  • You are projecting your individual will to survive on to something you call humanity.

    Drudge Retort skizziks 2009

  • You are projecting your individual will to survive on to something you call humanity.

    Drudge Retort skizziks 2009

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