The last of the human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.
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I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
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The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.
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History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
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For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
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I love life.. Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like.. It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
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American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if.. The fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
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Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce.
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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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Yon woodland, like a human mind, Has many a phase of dark and light; Now dim with shadows wandering blind, Now radiant with fair shapes of light.
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'Tis the temptation of the devil That makes all human actions evil; For saints may do the same things by The spirit, in sincerity, Which other men are tempted to, And at the devil's instance do: And yet the actions be contrary, Just as the saints and wick
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CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience
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The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
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Trace science then, with modesty thy guide; First strip off all her equipage of pride; Deduct what is but vanity, or dress, Or learning's luxury, or idleness; Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain; Expunge
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When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it whether it be a factory or a government.
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
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