Human Quotes
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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
Yehudi Menuhin
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I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.
Doris Day
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I'm only a human being.
Wayne Rooney
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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.
Anthony Trollope
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There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.
R. C. Sproul
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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.
Carl Barks
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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
Maya Angelou
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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Nature is not human hearted.
Lao Tzu
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Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.
W. G. Sebald
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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.
George Meany
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Imelda Marcos
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A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute
Rumi
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If it comes to a choice between being a good soldier and a good human being -- try to be a good human being.
Anton Myrer
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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.
D. H. Lawrence
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Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
Sam Kean
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The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
Gaston Bachelard
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
Kanye West
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The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.
Hamza Yusuf
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I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a Vegetarian lifestyle and I have faith and hopes in change in human destiny, thanks to the physical effects and benefits of a healthier diet and its influence on the character of the people. It will bring about some benefit and improvement to human society.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Larry Niven
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A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.
Allan Sekula
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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
Daisaku Ikeda