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