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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
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We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
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The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.
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The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.
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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.
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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
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Jesus died to save men — a small thing for an immortal to do, & didn't save many, anyway; but if he had been damned for the race that would have been act of a size proper to a god, & would have saved the whole race. However, why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?
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I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being—that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
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In estimating worldly values the Jew is not shallow, but deep. With precocious wisdom he found out in the morning of time that some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and that over these ideals they dispute and cannot unite—but that they all worship money; so he made it the end and aim of his life to get it. The cost to him has been heavy; his success has made the whole human race his enemy...
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Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will.
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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them.... There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning;... she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.
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What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.
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... when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.
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A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Born:
November 30, 1835
Died:
April 21, 1910
(aged 74)
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