Human Quotes
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All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.
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Answers make you wise, but questions make you human.
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Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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We know that genes shape human cultures and human societies: The DNA we inherited from our ancestors makes certain foods taste better, affects the way we care for children, influences what colors we find vibrant, and contributes to our love of socializing, among other examples.
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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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We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.
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She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.
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The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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I'm obsessed with being human.
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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
