"If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom."
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"You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship."
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"Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings"
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"The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history."
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"The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control"
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"Human beings have enormous resilience."
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"Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered."
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"We need other human beings in order to be human."
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"What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy."
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"I don't get along with anything, I really don't...I'm, I'm, maybe I'm just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being."
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"How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?"
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"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me."
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"The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are ."
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"Human beings create more than they destroy."
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"Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality."
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"However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning."
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"The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you."
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"Cities are the sinks of the human race."
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"We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike."
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"Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience."
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