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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
“I love hearts. They are symbols for life, love and humanity.”
Ville Valo
“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
“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.”
Oscar Wilde
“Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being ... The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.”
Dalai Lama
“Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
William Butler Yeats
“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink”
E. E. Cummings
“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
Anatole France
“No human thing is of serious importance”
Plato
“We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself . . . We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.”
Carl Gustav Jung
