#uma

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. ↗

— Willa Cather

#absence #bewildering #country #depressing #disheartening

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#any #burn #continued #decent #europe

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#bent #bow #cannot #frailty #human

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#cheerful #consistently #express #future #human

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#advertising agency #agency #chess #elaborate #find

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves. ↗

— Jung Chang

#consequently #did #government #human #human beings

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#destinies #drama #example #explores #for example

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity? ↗

— Cesar Chavez

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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

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