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• Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

  Rollo May

  Rebel, Saint, Humans

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• Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percent—as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every way—to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Strong, Men

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.105, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.

  Graham Hancock

  School, Ivory Tower, Taught

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• When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

  Albert Camus

  Character, Wonder, Crime

  Albert Camus (1957). “The fall”, Vintage

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• Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

  Jared Diamond

  Conflict, Humans

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.78, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Christian, Heaven, Saint

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• One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Ocean, Rocks

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• For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

  Angela Carter

  Men, Our World, Imagination

  Angela Carter (2015). “Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and areoplanes to Australasia, we would still have such trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones, and apologise for our tantrums?

  Alain de Botton

  Moon, Men, Light

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• There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though." "What help?" Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.

  Gordon Korman

  Hurt, Powerful, Needs

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.69, Scholastic Inc.

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• All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

  Lord Byron

  Food, Men, Apples

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Thirteenth”

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• Relax," Chiron told me. "Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history." "Relax," I said. "I'm very relaxed.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Clear Head, Remember You

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

  Timothy Leary

  Religious, Confused, Educational

  "How to Operate Your Brain". Documentary, a guided meditation spoken by Timothy Leary and set to music, 1994.

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• The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

  R. C. Sproul

  Dignity, Crosses, Testimony

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• Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

  Idries Shah

  Real, People, Right Time

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.82, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

  Edward Said

  Practice, Finals, Resistance

  Edward W. Said (2014). “Orientalism”, p.29, Vintage

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• The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there’s nothing wrong with being gay. I don’t find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason.

  Steven Pinker

  Bullying, Children, Gay

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• Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

  John Shelby Spong

  Prayer, Religion, Atheism

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• The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Communication, Years

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. May 17, 1981.

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• In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Humanity, Growing, Evolution

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• Angels appear to transcend all cultures, races, and systems. They are a part of human history and civilization, sometimes at the forefront, other times in the shadows, but they are always there. They don't belong to any one particular religion, although many modern people try to associate them with Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. No one religion holds total responsibility for the belief in angels. In truth, these religions only support the existence of angels, they didn't create them.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Responsibility, Angel, Race

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• Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may be claimed that the theory of descent is lacking, therefore, in the most essential feature that it needs to place the theory on a scientific basis, this must be admitted.

  Thomas Hunt Morgan

  May, Essentials, Needs

  Thomas Hunt Morgan (1903). “Evolution and adaptation”

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• I am so profoundly grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ, for a testimony of the Atonement of the Savior. I believe in it with all my heart, and I live for it, and I bear witness of it this day. Of all of the events of human history, none other approaches the Atonement of the Savior in its meaning and in its results. God be thanked for the gift of His precious Son, to whom we all owe thanks for His sacrifice in our behalf.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Believe, Grateful

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• If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Looks, Wilderness

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• For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to realize that we must now challenge that dogma, or do without our wilderness? Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

  Aldo Leopold

  Priorities, Challenges, Might

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.160, UNM Press

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