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“God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage” quote by Mark Twain — Download Open image

“God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage”

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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

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I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries…

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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

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“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected…

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“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” —Albert A. Bartlett”

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“My problem is that the human race seems to want to be destroyed!”

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“both the Mosaic law and the grace of the new covenant, as both fitted for the times [at which they were given], were bestowed…

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“Human race had never planned to show up in this universe. I wonder whether current human efforts are relevant to its sustainability.”

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“They all deserve to die. Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why. Because in all of the whole human race Mrs Lovett, there…

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