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Quote by George Orwell
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human being

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – George Orwell

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. – Malcolm de Chazal

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The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them. – Mark Goulston, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior, 1996

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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. – Christopher Morley, Human Being

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One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in ones dues, in short, without paying. – Michel De Certeau

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Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. – Charlotte Bronte

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If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace. – Ludwig von Mises

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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. – e. e. cummings

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