"If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals."
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"The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience."
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"Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing."
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"Who included me among the ranks of the human race?"
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"My aim is to motivate a human being, to find the champion within"
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"Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way."
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"that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world."
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"The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness."
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"Human perception is literally incarnation."
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"For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be."
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"Your God is altogether too human."
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"I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life."
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"I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is."
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"Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?"
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"I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings."
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"If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved."
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"Love is our human miracle."
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"Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us."
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"What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being."
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"What has happened to the adult human?"
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