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 | ""Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar"s and unto God the
things which are God"s." One would like to add: Give unto man things which
are man"s; give man his freedom and personality, his rights and
religion." | |
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Pope Pius XII
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| "All men by nature desire knowledge." | |
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Aristotle
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| "All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just
a work in progress." | |
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Tennessee Williams
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| "All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word or act the
key to the man, to the woman; straightaway all their past words and
actions lie in light before us." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human
rights invented America." | |
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Jimmy Carter
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| "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to
kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." | |
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Carl Gustav Jung
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| "At the worst, a house unkempt cannot be so distressing as a life
unlived." | |
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Dame Rose Macaulay
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| "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for
humanity." | |
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Horace Mann
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| "Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused
or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all
things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,?
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition." | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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| "Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a
human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents
whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are
indivisible!" | |
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Wilma Scott Heide
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| "For mercy has a human heart, pity a human face, and love, the human
form divine, and peace, the human dress." | |
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William Blake
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| "Housekeeping ain"t no joke." | |
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Louisa May Alcott
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| "Human kind Cannot bear very much reality." | |
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T. S. Eliot
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| "HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the
anthropoid poets." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "I am a man; I think nothing human is alien to me ?Homo sum: humani
nihil a me alienum puto" | |
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Publius Terence (P. Terentius Afer)
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| "I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes? and six
months later you have to start all over again." | |
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Joan Rivers
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| "I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole.
In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly
subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is
something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. Letter (9
October 1918)" | |
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Sigmund Freud
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| "I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I
hate people like that!" | |
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Thomas Andrew (Tom) Lehrer
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| "I"ll walk where my own nature would be leading? It vexes me to
choose another guide." | |
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Emily Brontė
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| "In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman
wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his
life in his hands." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "In this world a man must be either anvil or hammer." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one"s
neighbor." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "It will generally be found that those who sneer habitually at human
nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant
samples." | |
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Charles Dickens
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| "Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called
upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." | |
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Orson Welles
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| "Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Man is the measure of all things." | |
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Protagoras
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| "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the
victims he intends to eat until he eats them." | |
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Samuel Butler, the Younger
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| "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things
for granted." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do
without." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the
housework: neither one of us does it." | |
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Dottie Archibald
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| "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all,
continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary,
poor, nasty, brutish, and short." | |
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Thomas Hobbes
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| "Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and
I"m not sure about the universe." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs
within us." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar"s; and unto
God the things which are God"s." | |
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The Bible
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| "Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even
when they are." | |
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Jean Rostand
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| "The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she
is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is
of no concern to him." | |
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Immanuel Kant
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| "The hardest work in the world is being out of work." | |
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Whitney M. Young, Jr.
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| "The human body is the best picture of the human soul." | |
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Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
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| "The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in
spirals." | |
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Madame Anne Louise Germaine de Staėl
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| "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old
parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the
whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can
never be erased or obscured by mortal power." | |
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Alexander Hamilton
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| "The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity." | |
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Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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| "The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago
... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human
hands." | |
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Henry Havelock Ellis
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| "The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained,
enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man." | |
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Charles Sumner
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| "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the
urge to rule." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race,
and finish the farce." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "To a woman the house is life militant; to a man it is life in
repose." | |
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Oliver Bell Bunce
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| "To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our
selfishness and exercise our benevolent Affections, constitute the
perfection of human nature." | |
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Adam Smith
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| "Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them." | |
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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| "We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is
rounded with a sleep." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the
oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of
sugar candy." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line
of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be
anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than
nothing." | |
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Sydney Smith
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| "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for
kindness." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "Wherever you come near the human race there"s layers and layers of
nonsense." | |
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Thornton Niven Wilder
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| "Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man." | |
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Sophocles
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| "Work expands to fill the time available." | |
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Unknown
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| "You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the
greatest act of faith can persuade you that what"s left will be
human." | |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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