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Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

– Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

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'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

– E. R. Bulwer-Lytton

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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.

– Dr. David M. Burns

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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.

– Dr. David M. Burns

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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

– Orson Scott Card

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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.

– James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

– James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

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Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.

– Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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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.

– Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko

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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

– Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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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.

– I Ching

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

– Noam Chomsky

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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.

– Noam Chomsky

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Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

– F. Forrester Church

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I don't think you have to teach people how to be human. I think you have to teach them how to stop being inhumane.

– Eldridge Cleaver

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Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.

– John Cogley Commonweal

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If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.

– Jacques Cousteau

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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

– Harvey Cox

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To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

– E. E. Cummings

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It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.

– Bronwyn Davies

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

– Bette Davis

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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

– Germaine De Stael

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There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull How do you hang on to someone who won't stay And how do you get rid of someone who won't go

– Danny DeVito

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There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

– John Sloan Dickey

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