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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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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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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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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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If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.
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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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I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
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I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
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The Internet is an incredible business tool. First of all, the Internet/the cell phone - the cell phone is just another way to get at it - I think is having a huge impact in Africa most particularly, where it enables people - suddenly, they know crop prices. They can communicate. It makes their lives more efficient.
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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.
