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“Motormouth: So this is love? Well, love is a gift and a lot of people forget that. So you two better brace yourselves for a whole lot of ugly coming your way on a never ending train of stupid. Penny: So you met my mom?”

Book:Hairspray: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Hit Broadway Musical

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“...But this number, like all the others, must be seen not as 5.7 million, which is an abstraction few of us can grasp, but as 5.7 million times one. This does not mean some generic image of a Jew passing through some abstract notion of death 5.7 million times. It means countless individuals who nevertheless have to be counted, in the middle of life...”

Humanity Murder Genocide Holocaust Mass Murder

Book:Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Source: Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

“Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience.”

Humanity Literature

Author:Ralph Ellison

“Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.”

Humanity Journalism Journalist Investigative Journalism Whistleblowing

Book:Little Bee

Source: Little Bee

“High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn't bomb the rail lines to Hitler's camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of Kim Jong Il's camps, and did nothing.”

War Humanity Justice Ignorance

Book:Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

Source: Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

“There is one advantage to realizing that you're never going to get it right: you do begin to stop expecting everyone else to get it right too, which makes for less frustration when other people turn out to be just as human as you are.”

Humanity Compassion Kindness Perfection

Book:Buddhism of the Heart: Reflections on Shin Buddhism and Inner Togetherness

Source: Buddhism of the Heart: Reflections on Shin Buddhism and Inner Togetherness

“From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.”

Humanity Moralism

Author:Immanuel Kant

“لو أن لبائع اللب قدرة على الجدل لدلل على أنه يلعب دوراً خطيراً في حياة البشر، ولا يبعد أن يكون لكل شيئ قيمة ذاتية ولا يبعد كذلك ألا يكون لشيئ قيمة البتة، كم مليوناً من البشر يلفظون أنفاسهم في هذه اللحظة؟ في الوقت نفسه يرتفع صوت طفل بالبكاء على فقد لعبة، أو صوت عاشق يبث الليل والكون متاعب قلبه، أأضحك أم أبكي؟”

Life Values Humanity Argument Value Argumentation

Book:Sugar Street

Source: Sugar Street

“Most people would have probably lost count around seven. This was, Harry knew from his extensive reading on logic and arithmetic, the largest number that most people could visually appreciate. Put seven dots on a page, and most people can take a quick glance and declare, “Seven.” Switch to eight, and the majority of humanity was lost.”

Humanity Numbers Mathematics Seven 7

Book:What Happens in London

Source: What Happens in London

“They are so frail humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals under foot.”

Humanity Frailty

Book:The Goblin Market

Source: The Goblin Market

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