Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like?
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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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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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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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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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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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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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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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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I'm like, 'Why aren't artists owning their masters? Why are labels robbing artists dry, and they have to spend all this time on tour to even break even?' Like, what happened? Why are they promoting things that aren't either socially conscious or elevating the human consciousness?
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That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.
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The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
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I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like?
