"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."
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"Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times."
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"I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans."
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"Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race."
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"Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power."
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"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished."
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"True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost."
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"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art."
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"By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression."
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"The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others."
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"Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships."
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"There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them."
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"The human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously."
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"All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are"
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"Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange."
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"Writers are the engineers of human souls."
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"Poetry is music written for the human voice."
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"All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true."
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"The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated."
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"Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being."
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