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A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being? ↗

— Jose Saramago

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What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish. ↗

— David Sarnoff

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All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

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Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

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Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

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