Butterfly Boucher Quotes
As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good.
Butterfly Boucher
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
Maya Angelou
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
Ziggy Marley
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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.
e. e. cummings
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It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress.
John Stuart Mill
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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
John Stuart Mill
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All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.
Epictetus
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You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.
Hermann Hesse
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It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.
Paul Simon
Simon & Garfunkel
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However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.
Rudyard Kipling
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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
George Bernard Shaw
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Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.
Tom Hanks
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A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
Albert Camus
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Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless of how they got there or whether they know God's name. Sometimes it comes as an extended human hand and sometimes as a bolt from the blue, but either way it opens a door in what looked for all the world like a wall. This is the way of life, and God alone knows how it works.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.
Bette Davis
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I've by and large been a positive person ever since I can remember.
Richard M. DeVos
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Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.
Bernard Lonergan
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As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good.
Butterfly Boucher
