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Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

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George Bernard Shaw

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable but that I was not very lovable myself.

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Abraham J. Heschel

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

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Albert Einstein

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.

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Edward Noyes Westcott

I reckon there’s as much human nature in some folks as there is in others if not more.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

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Japanese Proverb

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

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Elizabeth Bowen

Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It’s the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.

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Albert Schweitzer

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

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I was born modest not all over but in spots.

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Edgar Watson Howe

A modest man is usually admired – if people ever hear of him.

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When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

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