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“It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.”

“No tears are shed, when an enemy dies.”

“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”

“God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.”

“Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.”

“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”

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"Nothing makes you madder than wanting to defend yourself against something you can't even get hold of, something the human race is doing to you, but still there's nobody you can grab by the throat."

— Stefan Zweig

Literature1881–1942

#Human Nature

"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general dis…"

— George Bernard Shaw

Literature1856–1950

#Human Nature

"If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will h…"

— Arthur C. Clarke

Literature1917–2008

#Human Nature

"To the mind of superficial men the future of different races has already brought disaster and ruin upon the country. The poor negro has been charged with all our woes. In the haste of these men they f…"

— Frederick Douglass

Social Activism1818–1895

#justice