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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the...

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Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is contin...

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Guy de MaupassantThe Collected Novels and Stories of Guy de Maupassant

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

...he was not so much a human as a civil war.

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H. G. WellsThe History of Mr. Polly

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at a...

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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways....

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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum tot...

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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator...

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The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to th...

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Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus...

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Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human be...

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Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.

Because you are neither an angel nor a god. I am quite aware that your actions have been prompted by...

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I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a bree...

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He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, ...

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He was glad to be human. For sure, it was a great inconvenience to have to walk on two legs and wear...

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Samsa looked down in dismay at his naked body. How ill-formed it was! Worse than ill-formed. It poss...

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Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in...

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It’s okay to not be perfect and not to have everything figured out. It’s okay to feel things that ar...

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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no li...

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Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - ...

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Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -...

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One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the...

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Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there!

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Henry JamesThe Madonna of the Future by Henry James

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of h...

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Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of...

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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, minist...

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If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can...

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Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

Water: 35 liters, Carbon: 20 kg, Ammonia: 4 liters, Lime:1.5 kg, Phosphrus: 800 g, salt: 250g, saltp...

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions o...

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Sports is the toy department of human life.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware ...

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The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures ...

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Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus te...

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the grea...

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To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the gre...

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Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”            -I did nothing for you.”   ...

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One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman i...

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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeav...

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In some respects, a society in which the members reach a universal level in which they are anonymous...

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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

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J. K. RowlingThe Tales of Beedle the Bard

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human be...

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As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along ...

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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

No one wants to die alone, even though that's how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend th...

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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world the object of pure...

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The eyes, too, were reptilelike in glint and gaze. Yet at that instant, humbled and alert in their l...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s...

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Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or mo...

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The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different conti...

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When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left ...

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One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. The...

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But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years ...

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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10 000 people. The hardest is with one.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."-Jimi Hendrix

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to exp...

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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human ...

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The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok – the word they use for Lake Champlain. It mea...

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What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than ev...

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After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are nev...

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All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special func...

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He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minu...

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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of ta...

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I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of nati...

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Human beings crave freedom at their core.

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take p...

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Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burde...

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Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been pas...

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I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our n...

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