Eric Weiner Quotes
God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.Eric Weiner
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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.
Sam Kean -
Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
Federica Mogherini -
Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken -
The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
E. O. Wilson -
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.
Fidel Castro
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
H. P. Lovecraft -
None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
Said Musa -
Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
Vicente Fox -
The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
Brown Campbell -
Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
Naomie Harris -
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Gary Hamel
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
Saint Ignatius -
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. Lawrence -
Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
Jack Miller -
Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.
La'Porsha Renae -
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis
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How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?
Ernest Bramah -
The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
A. N. Wilson -
I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.
Christine Baranski -
The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange.
Octavio Paz -
Music is not my business, communication is; and so I have, through my life, tried to communicate through music.
Usha Uthup -
God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.
Eric Weiner