"It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals."
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"Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human."
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"Humans can think inhuman thoughts."
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"If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch."
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"Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?"
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"How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy."
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"Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it."
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"It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes."
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"All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them."
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"The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day"
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"Everybody's human. You are only on this planet for a little bit of time."
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"Human beings absolutely follow through on who they believe they are"
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"Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created."
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"Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured."
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"We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money."
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"No human being can prevent you from giving. Because no human being controls God’s agenda."
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"God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded."
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"Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly."
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"My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?"
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"I think all humans are essentially proud and I certainly am."
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