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"Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself."
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"...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared."
"You couldn't predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people."
"The beautiful truth about service is that we are afforded countless opportunities to be its vehicle. Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve. From simply letting someone into your lane in traffic, to holding a door, to a kind smile. This is all service. I am humbled by this simple truth. We are given the opportunity to express the most meaningful use of our lives every time we interact with another sentient being."
"The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey."
"Don't blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before."
"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
"Life is full of intriguing souls that you cannot penetrate. An uncomfortable percentage of those anguished and impregnable souls also have suffering hearts that are further tormented by a deluded mind. They will hurt out of an impulse, and then live their lives after that without the slightest remorse."
"For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most."
"The needs of the people around you should your utmost priority."
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"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."
"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
"All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears."
"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
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