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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Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

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Use your past successes as a trampoline, not an easy chair. ― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ― Karl Marx

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What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — Warren Buffet

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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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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ― Confucius

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