Henry James Sumner Maine Quotes
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.Henry James Sumner Maine
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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
Gary Weiss -
I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
Magnus Carlsen -
It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
Han Suyin -
You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!
Rachel Caine
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
Wayne Shorter -
It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
Ziggy Marley -
What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
Ted Dekker -
Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
Alexandru C. Cuza -
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
Ann Druyan
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The only bad thing is that Smallville is shot in Vancouver, and Michael and I live in L.A. So sometimes I feel like a Ping-Pong ball.
Annette O'Toole -
I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
Curt Flood -
the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
e. e. cummings -
I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.
Dalai Lama -
I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.
Kristen Stewart -
To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
Bill Vaughan
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In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings.
Victoria Legrand Beach House -
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
Thomas R. Cech -
To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.
Andrew Bacevich -
Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10 hours. You need the minimum amount of education and training, and society needs to find a way to study music - not only the performances, but how to compose, how to understand why Mozart was great at what he did.
Carlo Grante -
I've always thought I haven't ever had much of a lucky break.
Ricky Reed -
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
Henry James Sumner Maine