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- There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.
- Quentin Crisp
- The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Biologist P. B. Medawar
- We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
- W. R. Inge
- Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
- Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
- The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".
- H. Allen Smith
- The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.
- Robert Ardrey
- One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
- Wilfrid Sheed
- Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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