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- Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849
- There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables,' 1862
- Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
- Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963), last message to the world, 1957
- Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
- The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
- Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.
- Alfred A. Montapert
- The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher, 05-01-07
- It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994
- Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
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