If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
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There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.
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My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
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To err is human and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
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Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated.. It is finished when it surrenders.
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The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the indiv
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We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.
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As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood and an almost total inability to practice it.
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The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
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Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die.. Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
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Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.
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We cannot dispair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.
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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
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Just as a prism of glass miters light and casts a colored braid, a garden sings sweet incantations the human heart strains to hear. Hiding in every flower, in every leaf, in every twig and bough, are reflections of the God who once walked with us in Eden.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
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To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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Respect human talent, respond to genius, recognize reality, admire truth and beauty, realize the meaning of the rare flower Reason.
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