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Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver
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One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
Paul Nitze
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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher
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I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of human kind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context... I can see such a use for the future as representing the really progressive character of the idea of understanding art when it is related to the life of humankind within the social body in the future.
Joseph Beuys
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Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
Andrei Sakharov
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The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
Charles W. Chesnutt
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It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.
William Cobbett
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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
Willard van Orman Quine
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The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
John Templeton
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor — those great tools of thought — and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Wilson Lynd
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Horace Mann
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The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
George Marshall
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We are as great as our belief in human liberty — no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
Archibald MacLeish
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch
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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
Henry Miller
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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest…The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler
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The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it.
Annie Besant
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Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
Aldo Leopold
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
Haile Selassie
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Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.
William Banting
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John Steinbeck
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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
James A. Michener
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