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Sex is God's joke on human beings.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts

Heywood C. Broun

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Eugene Ionesco

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Robertson Davies

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.

Bill Gates

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Georgia Harkness

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

Thomas Jefferson

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

Karl Marx

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea

Madalyn Murray O\'Hair

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Frederick Buechner

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Helen Keller

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

Martin Luther

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be.

John G Agno

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Bill Maher

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Dalai Lama

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Bill Maher

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race

Bertrand Russell

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Blaise Pascal

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

Samuel Butler

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