John Updike - I'm trying to get the terrorist ...

I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.

John Updike

American Novelist

Born: Mar 18, 1932

Died: Jan 27, 2009

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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. Norman Cousins

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. E. E. Cummings

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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer

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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. George S. Patton

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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience. Wayne Dyer

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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. Jackie Robinson

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That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. Elizabeth Wurtzel

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I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. Isabel Allende

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I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Stephen Grellet

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We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit. Stephen Hawking

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