Human Quotes
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I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
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The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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As human beings, our lives should be in retrospect with God.
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I think all human beings are at least a little bit Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and many of us are downright quadrophenic.
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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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We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
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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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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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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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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.
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.