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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910) -
How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.
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However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
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Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
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Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.
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Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
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Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
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Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.
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Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
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Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
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I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
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