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Quote by Nan Fairbrother
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. - Nan Fairbrother

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. – Nan Fairbrother

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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. – Nan Fairbrother

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. – George Bernard Shaw

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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. – Stephen Hawking

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In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great. – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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The doctors tell us of a physical disease called fatty degeneration of the heart… there is a moral malady—fatty degeneration of the soul; sooner or later it attacks every man, however noble his career, who puts self forward in his aims; who values fame because a personal possession. – Frank Lee Benedict, The Price She Paid, 1882

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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. – Albert Camus

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. – Plato

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