"We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth."
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"Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being."
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"In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human."
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"Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness."
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"A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships."
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"We humans are more concerned with having than with being."
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"There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."
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"There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be."
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"No human being is the same; we are like snowflakes, none of us are the same but we are all COOL"
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"There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks."
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"Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills."
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"Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks."
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"I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights."
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"Every man has within himself the entire human condition"
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"There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences."
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"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."
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"If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am."
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"Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing."
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"No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them."
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"Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same."
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