I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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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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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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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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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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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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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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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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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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