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  • Bob Riley However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Bob Filner However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
    An Ideal Husband (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Penelope Fitzgerald However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • Bill Shuster However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bruce McCulloch However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Blaise Pascal Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Primo Levi Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
    Primo Levi
    Italian chemist, author (1919 - 1987)
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  • Thomas Paine Human nature is not of itself vicious.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Amelia E. Barr Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Barbara Block Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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  • Blake Farenthold Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Tom Robbins Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Carl Sagan Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 3
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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