"The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves."
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"If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large."
"The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent."
"To read is human, to review is divine."
"Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human."
"Human nature craves novelty."
"I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct."
"Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that."
"A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it."
"Human-nature will not change."
"I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm."
"All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises."
"There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep."
"I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible."
"It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so."
"Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency."
"Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human behaviour I am not so sure."
"The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects."
"Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person."
"I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed."