Jack Miller Quotes
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
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Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
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Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities.
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It's like you have to save your own life, nobody is going to be your savior for you, so we have to do what we have to do, no matter what it is
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
