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- On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
- Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
- The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy
- MIT Assasination Club slogan
- Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
- Richard Bach
- The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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