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.
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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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Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
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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.
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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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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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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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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.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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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.
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Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
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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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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
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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.
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Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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Silence gives the proper grace to women.
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If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.
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I love tackling, love it. It's better than sex.
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I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
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As part of a group that has promoted for a long time, I think it’s a shame that many groups can’t do that. It does make me sad. Even if you start promoting in your late teens or early twenties, if you include the training period, you’ve basically spent half your life as a singer.
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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.
