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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cheri

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. – Havelock Ellis

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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human beings functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. – Havelock Ellis

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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. – Havelock Ellis

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Suicide
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. – Havelock Ellis

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Denzels quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. Thats what he does and thats what he taught me to do. – Derek Luke

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I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations. – Cliff Stearns

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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. – Clara Barton

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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with Gods help I shall succeed. – Vincent Van Gogh

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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books. – Norman MacCaig

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Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want. – DMX

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