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- A human being can stand any amount of pain.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
- Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940)
- Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Accidents ruled every cornor of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.
- David Guterson, Snow Falling On Cedars
- What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Motherly love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
- Marion C. Garretty
- If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.
- Fidel Castro (1927 - )
- Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Dr. Zhivago
- So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.
- Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), The Shifting Realities of Phillip K. Dick
- Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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