Human Quotes
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.
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Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.
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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
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Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.
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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
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How to make a scary movie human, take a movie like Sinister. How can I make that guy so real so that the scary elements of it are more scary and it functions as a genre movie - as the way it's supposed to, you want to hear a ghost story at midnight, that's a good one - but how do you fill it up with humanity inside, in staying true to the genre? You know? Does that make sense?
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
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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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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.
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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
