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"Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?"
"I don't have a 10-octave range. No human being has a 10-octave range."
"But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone."
"I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them."
"Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray."
"They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?"
"I still prefer horses to human beings."
"Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit."
"Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life."
"Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless."
"The worst of all human ailments: indecision."
"Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human."
"They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]"
"Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally."
"No human creature can give orders to love."
"I am not a human being, I am dynamite."
"To eat is human, to digest, divine"
"Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans."
"We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it."