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"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
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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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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
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