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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furiou...

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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in...

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to eve...

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Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew...

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speec...

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But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guil...

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They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themse...

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I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any ...

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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humo...

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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and b...

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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love ...

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I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No whe...

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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - ...

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Masks. - There are women who, however you may search them, prove to have no content but are purely m...

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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this gr...

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Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!He was human,...

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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it...

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The human mind isn’t a computer; it cannot progress in an orderly fashion down a list of candidate m...

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Garry KasparovDeep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to...

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In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take t...

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No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever ...

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I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another all would be well with the...

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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that'...

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All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoa...

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Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...

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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...

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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equali...

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Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of...

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...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...

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No human creature can give orders to love.

I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will en...

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Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of hu...

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Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret a...

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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone...

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Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians an...

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No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never exper...

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There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside compute...

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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.