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All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.

Alexander Dumas

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

John Jay Chapman

If the human brain were simple enough to understand, we'd be so simple we couldn't.

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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Soren Kierkegaard

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race.

Ernest L. Woodward

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Dalai Lama

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

Mark Twain

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Jacques Cousteau

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Robert Francis Kennedy

The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.

Jerome Hines

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.

Stephen Crotts

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

Rene Dubos

The answer to global warming is in the abolition of private property and production for human need. A socialist world would place an enormous priority on alternative energy sources. This is what ecologically-minded socialists have been exploring for quite some time now.

Louis Proyect

If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would:nuclear war, global warming and Windows.

Dave Barry

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Grenville Kleiser

Communication--the human connection--is the key to personal and career success.

Paul J. Meyer

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Albert Einstein

Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart-the center of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it-and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal.

Maurice Franks

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

James Bryce

America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

Barack Obama

History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

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