Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
I don't think there are too many places left that humans haven't pretty thoroughly explored.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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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.
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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.
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.
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I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
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the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
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You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
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Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
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I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
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If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.
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Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.
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I don't think there are too many places left that humans haven't pretty thoroughly explored.
