"Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace."
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"Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race."
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"Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked."
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"Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven."
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"The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending."
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"I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same."
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"Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message."
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"The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own."
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"On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival."
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"Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals."
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"If the race is good, so is the place."
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"The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations."
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"If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong."
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"But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going. Sometimes I even go to Fun parks and ride in the jet cars when they race on the edge of town at midnight and the police don't care as long as they're insured. As long as everyone has ten thousand insurance everyone's happy. Sometimes I sneak around and listen in subways. Or I listen at soda fountains, and do you know what? People don't talk about anything."
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"Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing."
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"I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race."
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"The Germans, a race eager for war."
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"Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems."
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"I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space."
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"I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets."
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