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“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.”
Dave Barry
“To err is human, but is feels divine.”
Mae West
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde
“If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.”
William Allen White
“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
Plato
“Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes”
Tom Mullen
“Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.”
Daniel Bell
“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”
“Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.”
Jodie Foster
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy