"To be human is erroneous."
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"The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human."
"A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor."
"The human mind ever longs for occupation."
"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."
"As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress."
"Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?"
"We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other."
"Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed."
"Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too."
"Stop being Jews and start being human beings."
"Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions."
"Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable."
"In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history."
"Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person."
"A human being can stand any amount of pain."
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
"To determine if you're human. Be silent."
"The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds."
"The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest."