George Gissing Quotes
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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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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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.
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I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
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There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.
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She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.
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The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
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Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...
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Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.
