Human Quotes
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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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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I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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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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The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
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Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.
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We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman with sincerity.
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
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Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
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You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.
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I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.
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He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Human hearts are not made out of stone. Thank Thor. They can break, and heal, and beat again.
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It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
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To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
