Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. — Henry James

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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind— And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind. Then let us hurry, comrades, The road to find. ― Langston Hughes

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The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. ― Scott Westerfield

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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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All my life, I’d shied away from human company, never sharing my thoughts with a soul. How pointless this seemed now, and how absurd!

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I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

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Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. ― Langston Hughes

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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

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Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

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