"All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse."
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"There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American."
"Everything human is pathetic"
"To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine."
"All human happiness is sensuous happiness."
"The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more."
"To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation."
"Being evil is something that only humans are capable of."
"You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans."
"Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't."
"A hysterical human? Who hadn't seen that before?"
"It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another."
"It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have."
"Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known."
"To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts."
"Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement."
"Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history."
"War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can."
"It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it."
"God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us."