Human Quotes
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Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
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Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
