"Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better"
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"So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!"
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"We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time."
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"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."
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"A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies."
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"You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love."
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"Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time."
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"All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!"
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"You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it."
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"Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality."
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"In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary."
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"They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult."
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"Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies."
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"I'd be worried about myself as a human if I hadn't been nervous."
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"No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession."
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"And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to."
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"I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter."
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"We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future."
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"The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn."
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"Background for Humans"
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