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“The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.”
Winston Churchill
“We are all alike on the inside”
Mark Twain
“Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.”
“All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink”
E. E. Cummings
“It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”
Dalai Lama
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined ... to strengthen each other ... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
George Eliot
“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.”
Oscar Wilde
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