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    Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

by Mark Twain Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

by Adam Smith Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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Over the brink of it
Picture it--think of it,
Dissolute man.
Lave in it--drink read more

Over the brink of it
Picture it--think of it,
Dissolute man.
Lave in it--drink of it
Then, if you can.

by Thomas Hood Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the read more

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

by Storm Jameson Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen read more

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.

by Willa Cather Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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W'en you see a man in woe,
Walk right up and say "hullo."
Say "hullo" and "how read more

W'en you see a man in woe,
Walk right up and say "hullo."
Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do,"
"How's the world a-usin' you?"
. . . .
W'en you travel through the strange
Country t'other side the range,
Then the souls you've cheered will know
Who you be, an' say "hullo."

by Sam Walter Foss Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor.

Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor.

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A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, read more

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

by Joseph R. Krutch Found in: Humanity Quotes,
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