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- To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An Essay on Criticism
- Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Rebel (1951)
- I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Saturday Evening Post, Nov. 6, 1926
- There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
- How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
- There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
- Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), State of the Union address 2003
- A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Sirens of Titan
- Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
(Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen) - Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), From his play Almansor (1821)
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