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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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The Bible was written by fallible human beings.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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