A Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Humankind above all is lazy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Above Humankind Lazy

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Harriet Beecher Stowe
American - Author
June 14, 1811 - July 1, 1896

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Harry S. Truman

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Hildegard of Bingen

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Frederick Lenz

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Jonathon Porritt

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N. T. Wright

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Wafa Sultan

I have come to this conclusion: if 'sentimentality' is lazy emotion, then the term itself is lazy criticism.

Andrew Sean Greer

Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

M.C. Beaton

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Joseph Rotblat

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

Lech Walesa

Listen to the long stillness: New life is stirring New dreams are on the wing New hopes are being readied: Humankind is fashioning a new heart Humankind is forging a new mind God is at work. This is the season of Promise

Howard Thurman

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

Petra Kelly

Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.