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• A human being is only breath and shadow.

  Sophocles

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• Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don’t be ashamed because you’re human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that’s as it should be.

  Tomas Transtromer

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• The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

  George Steiner

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• Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

  George Soros

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• Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

  George S. Patton

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• The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

  George Orwell

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• To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

  George Orwell

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• War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

  George Orwell

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• Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

  Stellan Skarsgard

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• The Indian is a human being.

  George Crook

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• With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

  Simone Weil

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• I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

  Sigmund Freud

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• If you look at yourself as a star, you’ve already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

  Gene Hackman

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• A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

  Thomas Hood

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• I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I’m a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I’m not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn’t exist.

  Gary Wayne Coleman

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• I’ve traveled more than any human being who’s ever lived.

  Gary Player

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• If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn’t be a human being, you’d be a game show host.

  Gabriel Heatter

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• I thought to myself, there’s a man who gave up his life to serve others – to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

  Gabriel Byrne

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• I can’t tell you if one day I’ll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.

  Terrence Howard

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• I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

  Sandra Bullock

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