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  • Bill Copeland How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.
    Bill Copeland
    American poet, writer and historian (1946 - 2010)
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  • Bill Copeland How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away.
    Bill Copeland
    American poet, writer and historian (1946 - 2010)
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  • Anne Frank How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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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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  • George Bernard Shaw Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Cosby Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Ashley Montagu Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • James Thurber Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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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 Mann Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Albert Camus Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future -and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Arthur Peacocke Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Agnes Repplier Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • James Thurber 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.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Mohsin Hamid I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bryan Batt I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Mark Twain I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct - nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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