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"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
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"It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that."
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"The proper study of Mankind is Man."
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"The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't think of the clients here as dying," one of them said to him on his first visit. "After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly."
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"We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world."
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"India believes in taking everyone together. Nepal was rattled with an earthquake. We provided assistance to them. We did so, on the grounds of humanity. Be it Yemen or Maldives, we tried to provide assistance at our best. Humanity is our central inspiration."
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"People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction."
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"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."
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"I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all."
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"Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends."
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"Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences."
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"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
Survival
"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
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"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
Fun
"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
Philosophy
"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
Body
"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
History
"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."
Ability
"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
Humanity
"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
Age
"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
Reading
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