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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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proverbiosLife without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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