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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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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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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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
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Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
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The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
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A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.
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Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.
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I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them.
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Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.
