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This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?


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I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.


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A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.


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One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.


Erich Fromm
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People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world.
Helen McCrory
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Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.
Annie Besant
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I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam Chomsky
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There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
Alain Resnais
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When we hear the word 'beauty', we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite realm where only the extraordinary dwells. Yet without realizing it, each day each one of us is visited by beauty. When you actually listen to people, it is surprising how often beauty is mentioned. A world without beauty would be unbearable.
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I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.
Jennifer Carpenter
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.


George Bernard Shaw
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The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.


Alan Bullock
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Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.


George Steiner
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Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.
Jerome Charyn
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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.


Marian Anderson
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My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.


Leila Josefowicz
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Melancholy is no bad thing.


Sting
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Thomas Hardy
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My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.
Andie MacDowell
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Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.


James Newman