Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
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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 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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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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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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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important.
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I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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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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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
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At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
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Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.
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I'm just human, I have faults like anyone.
