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"Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself."
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"Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one."
"I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia."
"Consider again that dot [Earth]. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
"EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE."
"Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind."
"Genuine people never seems to be in rush. In their conversation they make the other person feel special."
"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."
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"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"
"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."
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