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“For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose.”
“The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.”
“People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.”
“Let us remind our leaders that there is no place for personal interests in politics.”
“Even in peace there is war.”
“You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire w...”
“Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit's there and sitting downon itand because you areforever making poems in the lapof death Human...”
“Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.”
“My boy, many people know many things. But the things we think we know of others can only become what is known if the others choose to do the doing of making what we think we know known.”
“At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.”
“holding a tiny dixie cup in my hand makes me feel like a giant human being that can crush things”
“MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own speci...”
“The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.”
“Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all ma...”
“I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. I just need to know that someone out there listens ...”
“I asked myself one day, 'Would it be humane of me to completely destroy my mind and soul for the music?' I knew immediately that the answer was no, so I knew I had to.”
“The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is r...”
“Take care of others now, so they can take care of you in future.”
“Imperfection is the greatness of humanity”
“... she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the 'light woman.'People who enjoyed 'picking-up' t...”
