"A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear."
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"More than machinery, we need humanity."
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"I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter of embracing their humanity, allowing them to choose in such a way that they are in the driver's seat regarding their lives."
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"Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity."
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"There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?"
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"What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?"
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"But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity."
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"When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty."
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"Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business."
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"It seems to me that one of the most basic human experiences, one that is genuinely universal and unites-or, more precisely, could unite-all of humanity, is the experience of transcendence in the broadest sense of the word."
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"Human kind cannot bear much reality."
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"And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster."
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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
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"The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."
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"There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity."
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"In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity (insensitivity) of the species: badly wired robots bumping into and maiming and killing each other."
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"God's first Smile was born The day humanity awoke To His Light."
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"Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail."
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"There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that."
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"Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements."
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