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  • Benjamin E. Mays However hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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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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  • 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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  • 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.
    Source: 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 3
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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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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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Mark Twain Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Billy Collins 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.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Aristophanes Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Alexander Theroux Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
    Alexander Theroux
    American novelist and poet
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