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Quotes 721 till 740 of 1419.

  • George Orwell No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • A. A. Milne No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Seneca No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Samuel Johnson No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Annie Jump Cannon No greater problem is presented to the human mind.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Robert Lynd No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • José Saramago No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • W. H. Auden No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • John Ruskin No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • E. M. Cioran No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Elie Wiesel No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • John Steinbeck No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Peace Pilgrim No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Marguerite Duras No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Johnson No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Don DeLillo No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
    (2005)
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Alfred de Vigny No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Barbra Streisand Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Lydia M. Child None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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