#hum

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#deeper #essence #far #head #heart

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire. ↗

— David Zucker

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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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