Human Quotes
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If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
Walt Whitman
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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.
Oscar Wilde
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
R. C. Sproul
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Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the gaps in our abilities to think about things, maybe we can engineer in a computer more advanced intelligences that can help augment our ability to think.
Edward Boyden
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I am a private human.
Zosia Mamet
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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.
Viktor Korchnoi
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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.
Owen D. Young
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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
Idries Shah
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I'm a wordless storyteller, someone who cares about the dynamics of music...Musical dynamics are human dynamics.
Ahmad Jamal
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A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
Vaclav Havel
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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."
Diogenes
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I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.
Ziggy Marley
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Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.
Bellamy Young
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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?
Albert Einstein
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Anthony Robbins
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When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.
William Hazlitt
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It was the real thing ... When we were recording, sometimes we'd make a 'human fade' - we would just play softer and softer. We didnt have any overdubbing. When one guy took a solo, the other guys would stand up and snap their fingers and dance around the studio. We were having a wonderful time.
Allen Toussaint
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The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
H. Allen Smith
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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
Epictetus
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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.
Maimonides
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
Natalie Cole
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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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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.
Nathan Wolfe