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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?
Humankind
Fulghum Robert

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It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
Humankind
Will Rogers

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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Humankind
Ida P. Rolf

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Peace
Theodore Roosevelt

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The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
Illusion
Yasutani Roshi

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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
Involvement
Jean Rostand

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Belief
Jean Rostand

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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
Uncategorised
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Events
Salman Rushdie

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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
Fishing
John Ruskin

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All human activity is prompted by desire.
Desire
Bertrand Russell

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
Fools and Foolishness
Bertrand Russell

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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.
Mind
David Sarnoff

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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Humankind
Nathalie Sarraute

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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
Heroes and Heroism
May Sarton

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.
Fear
Paul R. Scheele

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Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
Destiny
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Politeness
Arthur Schopenhauer

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Ideas
Arthur Schopenhauer

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Happiness
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.
Leaders and Leadership
James Schorr

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Arts and Artists
Robert Schumann

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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Sacrifice
Albert Schweitzer

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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
Uncategorised
Albert Schweitzer

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The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.
Kindness
Albert Schweitzer

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun