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The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one." Quote link. Other quotes about: america right god world people freedom person future Other quotes by George W. Bush. "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." Quote link. Other quotes about: right need Other quotes by Pema Chodron. "It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive." Quote link. Other quotes about: respect Other quotes by Cicero. 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My experience Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug Howl the eternal yes" Quote link. Other quotes about: art men nature Other quotes by Henry G. Stott. "Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race." Quote link. Other quotes about: world men Other quotes by William Thayer Shedd. "Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect." Quote link. Other quotes by Stuart Seaton. "The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity." Quote link. Other quotes about: world nothing purpose Other quotes by Andrew Schneider. "There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it." Quote link. 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He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own." Quote link. Other quotes by H.L. Mencken. "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." Quote link. Other quotes about: moon Other quotes by H.L. Mencken. "We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine." Quote link. Other quotes about: first time freedom law Other quotes by H.L. Mencken. "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong Other quotes by H.L. Mencken. "For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong" Quote link. Other quotes about: first law Other quotes by Isaac Asimov. "One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws." Quote link. Other quotes about: truth life religion change fact Other quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick. "The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth." Quote link. Other quotes about: art artists Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson. "America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. 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But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be." Quote link. Other quotes by Herodotus. "The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long." Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness believe belief lies Other quotes by Louis D. Brandeis. "America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered." Quote link. Other quotes about: believe deep sin mind Other quotes by Thomas Huxley. "The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain. "Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain. "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." Quote link. Other quotes about: first Other quotes by Mark Twain. "We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty." Quote link. Other quotes about: never soul Other quotes by Mark Twain. "Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." Quote link. Other quotes about: time Other quotes by Mark Twain. "There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce." Quote link. Other quotes about: man discover law Other quotes by Mark Twain. "He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain." Quote link. Other quotes about: good need Other quotes by Mark Twain. "A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs." Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Mark Twain. "Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption." Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain. "It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race." Quote link. Other quotes about: reason nature Other quotes by Aristotle. "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire." Quote link. Other quotes about: first Other quotes by Aristotle. "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others." Quote link. Other quotes about: life good Other quotes by Aristotle. "In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities." Quote link. Other quotes by Charlotte Bronte. 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On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other." Quote link. Other quotes by E. R. Bulwer-Lytton. "'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error The strong and virtuous admit no destiny." Quote link. Other quotes about: find live person answer alone mind Other quotes by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck. "The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration." Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right never life person success fear perfect Other quotes by Dr. David M. Burns. "Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person." Quote link. Other quotes about: right person fear perfect Other quotes by Dr. David M. Burns. "Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person." Quote link. Other quotes about: need Other quotes by Orson Scott Card. "Human beings are free except when humanity needs them." Quote link. Other quotes about: right soul Other quotes by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.. "Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood." Quote link. Other quotes about: physical happiness right life Other quotes by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.. "For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants." Quote link. Other quotes about: america right Other quotes by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.. "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America." Quote link. Other quotes about: fear making Other quotes by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.. "If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement." Quote link. Other quotes about: soul Other quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin. "Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury." Quote link. Other quotes about: right nothing Other quotes by Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko. "Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs." Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. "Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it." Quote link. Other quotes about: god freedom Other quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. "Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice." Quote link. Other quotes about: earth work sin single law Other quotes by I Ching. "Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it." Quote link. Other quotes about: science reason Other quotes by Noam Chomsky. "As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." Quote link. Other quotes about: power reason believe past law Other quotes by Noam Chomsky. "There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past." Quote link. Other quotes about: die Other quotes by F. Forrester Church. "Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die." Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Quote link. Other quotes about: never government nature society Other quotes by Henry Clay. 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"Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward." Quote link. Other quotes about: day purpose house need grow Other quotes by Betty Naomi Friedan. "American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror." Quote link. Other quotes by John Galsworthy. "The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy." Quote link. Other quotes about: family soul Other quotes by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. 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Other quotes about: experience lost bad old friend something nature good deep wife Other quotes by Jeffrey Vlaming. "CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience" Quote link. Other quotes about: never seed Other quotes by Edith Hamilton. "The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower." Quote link. Other quotes about: greed lost money something evil Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts. "I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when someone kills someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet." Quote link. Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts. "As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable---until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD" Quote link. Other quotes about: war Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts. "One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse." Quote link. Other quotes about: live man grow Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts. "When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers." Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison. "Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships." Quote link. Other quotes by Stephen William Hawking. "To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." Quote link. Other quotes about: small happy men glory love rich Other quotes by Claude Adrien Helvetius. "There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity." Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right god people good wish Other quotes by Heraclitus. "To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish." Quote link. Other quotes about: art reason old god man change law soul Other quotes by Hermes. "From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting." Quote link. Other quotes about: hate love Other quotes by Oliver Herford. "Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings." Quote link. Other quotes about: man society mind service Other quotes by Richard Hofstadter. "A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind." Quote link. Other quotes by Richard Hughes. "Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can." Quote link. Other quotes about: experience Other quotes by Johann Huizinga. "Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience." Quote link. Other quotes about: nature discover Other quotes by David Hume. "History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature." Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by David Hume. "Custom is the great guide of human life." Quote link. Other quotes about: experience Other quotes by Alice James. "One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience." Quote link. Other quotes about: earth man sun value society grow Other quotes by Paul Ingram. "A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the Universe, we are an expression of it. The iron in our blood comes from the high temperature fusion of stars. We constantly interact with our environment. The force of gravity keeps our feet upon the earth and has a vital effect upon our metabolism. The air we breathe comes form the seas and the leaves, and the sun allows the process to take place. Society gives us all that makes us human our culture, our symbols, our concepts and our values. Without society, the notion of the individual would have no meaning." Quote link. Other quotes about: first life important Other quotes by Henry James. "Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind." Quote link. Other quotes about: live people love Other quotes by Clarence Jordan. "It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race." Quote link. Other quotes about: speech mind Other quotes by James Earl Jones. "When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language." Quote link. Other quotes about: history man purpose nature mankind perfect Other quotes by Immanuel Kant. "The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed." Quote link. Other quotes about: purpose light Other quotes by Carl Gustav Jung. "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." Quote link. Other quotes about: gratitude understand war child grow teach look soul Other quotes by Carl Gustav Jung. "An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." Quote link. Other quotes about: history Other quotes by Sir Arthur Keith. "The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts." Quote link. Other quotes about: friend man love woman soul Other quotes by Charles Kingsley. "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults." Quote link. Other quotes about: something war Other quotes by John Knowles. "Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart." Quote link. Other quotes about: science physical world important Other quotes by H. A. Kramers. "In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning." Quote link. Other quotes about: christ life sin alone single Other quotes by Abraham Kuyper. "In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine" Quote link. Other quotes about: belief Other quotes by Irving Layton. "Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon." Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine. "To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic." Quote link. Other quotes about: sun grow Other quotes by Jesse Lair. "Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it." Quote link. Other quotes about: soul Other quotes by Geoffrey Latham. "Music is the vernacular of the human soul." Quote link. Other quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater. "I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness." Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Sinclair Lewis. "There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble." Quote link. Other quotes about: dreams Other quotes by Haniel Long. "In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy." Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance Other quotes by Charles J. C. Lyall. "There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants." Quote link. Other quotes about: world mind Other quotes by H. P. Lovecraft. "The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." Quote link. Other quotes about: die Other quotes by Horace Mann. "Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity." Quote link. Other quotes about: christ Other quotes by J. Gresham Machen. "The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations but also all of human thought." Quote link. Other quotes about: integrity experience work respect love deep child hard Other quotes by Sybil Marshall. "I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind." Quote link. Other quotes about: god men man women fact Other quotes by Eric Mascall. "A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind." Quote link. Other quotes about: patience small mother nature children important need courage child soul Other quotes by Phyllis Mcginley. "God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents." Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken. "There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong." Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy god man book war lies Other quotes by Dennis McKinsey. "If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite." Quote link. Other quotes about: never men life wise moon women Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken. "Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill." Quote link. Other quotes about: day Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken. "School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency." Quote link. Other quotes about: man ideas Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken. "But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus." Quote link. Other quotes about: rule Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken. "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." Quote link. Other quotes about: moon Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken. "We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine." Quote link. Other quotes by Dominique de Menil. "What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable." Quote link. 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Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy." Quote link. Other quotes about: man evil discover Other quotes by Blaise Pascal. "I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room." Quote link. Other quotes about: books die live men man purpose book understand wise wisdom words hard Other quotes by Alan Stewart Paton. "Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom." Quote link. Other quotes about: old life sun family Other quotes by John Pearson. "Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce." Quote link. Other quotes about: bad life mother understand Other quotes by John Pearson. "The Queen Mother, with a lifetime's popularity, seemed incapable of a bad performance as national grandmother-warm, smiling, human, understanding, she embodied everything the public could want of its grandmother." Quote link. Other quotes about: world life understand love Other quotes by Anthony Perkins. "I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life." Quote link. Other quotes about: something life important courage fact Other quotes by Paul E. Pfuetze. "Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it." Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Luigi Pirandello. "When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself." Quote link. Other quotes about: freedom Other quotes by William Pitt. "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves." Quote link. Other quotes by Pope John Paul II. "The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn." Quote link. Other quotes about: power history world man life mankind Other quotes by Sir Karl Popper. "There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world." Quote link. Other quotes about: time teach Other quotes by Lewis F. Powell, Jr.. "History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time." Quote link. Other quotes about: understand mind Other quotes by Emerson Pugh. "If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it." Quote link. Other quotes about: class people education Other quotes by Beah Richards. "Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for So you can make a bigger salary than other people" Quote link. Other quotes about: think man fear influence Other quotes by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. "Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." Quote link. Other quotes about: world men person ideas Other quotes by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. "Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas." Quote link. Other quotes about: physical man life dead law Other quotes by Rudolph Rocker. 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