Human Quotes
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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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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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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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Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are.
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The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
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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.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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The greatest testimony to the human spirit that I'm witnessing now is the fact that people still come back to work, after all that has been done to them. They are still willing to participate for a more positive future if they would be sincerely invited.
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If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?
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I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.
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If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.
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There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
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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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Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
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If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a chance to become human-adapted, certainly before they've had a chance to spread - we can head off pandemics altogether.
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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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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."
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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
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Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.
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Human hearts are not made out of stone. Thank Thor. They can break, and heal, and beat again.
