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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left. ↗

— Oscar Levant

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I am no more humble than my talents require. ↗

— Oscar Levant

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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. ↗

— Bob Geldof

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Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human. ↗

— Richard Gere

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The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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