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A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

– Dorothy L. SayersRate it:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

– Robert A. HeinleinRate it:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

– Robert HeinleinRate it:

A human naturally requires Money, Shelter, and Sex for living without frustration, anger, and rage. Since as others, I realize it as well; however, I feel that as a need, not as my weakness; thus, it protects from every evil of this world.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

– Albert PikeRate it:

A humble life is not so impressive as compared to a more lavish life. But there is serenity in the simplicity of living.

– Clifford VillalonRate it:

A humble, courteous and lovely attitude is the beauty of talk; whereas, truth with honesty is the soul of talk

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either.

– Homer McLinRate it:

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

– Don HeroldRate it:

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

– Frank CapraRate it:

A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth.

– The HitopadesaRate it:

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.

– Lois McMaster BujoldRate it:

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

– Wyndham LewisRate it:

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

– Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970Rate it:

A hundred years for now? All new people.

– Anne LamottRate it:

A husband can physically and verbally chastise their wife in order to control their behavior. The Bible says so.

– Doug LambornRate it:

A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.

– Alexandre DumasRate it:

A husband is the chief ornament of a wife, though she have no other ornament; but, though adorned, without a husband she has no ornaments.

– The HitopadesaRate it:

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

– Helen RowlandRate it:

A husband ought to apologize always first even when he is correct & should never expect his wife to accept her mistake ever. That’s how she and those men having the lust define the concept of the ‘WOMEN’s RESPECT’.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

– James ThurberRate it:

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