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“All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.”
Tennessee Williams
“Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.”
Ross Perot
“Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course”
Kahlil Gibran
“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“We expect them (Salvadoran officials) to work toward the elimination of human rights”
Dan Quayle
“To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice -- and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse”
Jack Handy
“I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.”
A. Whitney Brown
“Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action . . . if you know these things about a man you can touch him at the core of his being.”
William Bernbach
“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.”
William James