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“A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.”

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Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.”

Humans Dies Human Nature Stupidity Indignation

Book:Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884

Source: Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884

“I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.”

“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”

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Book:Emma: A Novel

Source: Emma: A Novel

“We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.”

Dies Human Nature Encouragement Live By

Author:Celeste Holm

“I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.”

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Author:Joseph Heller

“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.”

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Author:Brian Aldiss

“Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.”

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Author:Xunzi

“God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.”

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Author:R. C. Sproul

“Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die.”

Source: Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization