Human Quotes
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A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
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Was I concerned? That's hard to say. I am human, and you hear things from different places. But at no time did I feel like he was going to coach somewhere else.
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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
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A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
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We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.
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Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.
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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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Would we rear the human plant to its perfection, we must fertilize the soil which produces it.
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There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, then fold. There are no exceptions. I'm OK with all that. Yet it pains me to bear witness to the sixth great extinction, where we humans are directly responsible for the extirpation of so many wonderful creatures and invaluable indigenous cultures. It saddens me to observe the plight of our own species; we appear to be incapable of solving our problems.
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Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.
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Only a human being would be able to assess whether candidates are capable, personality-wise, of sharing and disseminating that institutional knowledge to help other newer and younger workers.
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The human toll is what's important here. I pray that with God's help, and with all the ability that you have, that you see through anything that may be an obstacle to mine safety, and realize that money can't be a deterrent, nothing can be a deterrent.
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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One time I went to Berlin and, for some reason, everywhere I was going they had fishbowls. Like a fishbowl by your bed or a fish tank in the bar. They seem obsessed with this IKEA version of nature, which a fishbowl kind of is. They had that going on. I just don't really like having a goldfish by the side of my bed. I feel kind of sad for it, rather than happy. But I thought that was really weird. Maybe they have human fishbowls.
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You can't treat a car like a human being. A car requires love.
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The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.
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Everybody has had the experience of something they love – whether it's a pop song or a painting or a movie – feeling so perfect to them that it's almost like it came from another planet. It has nothing to do with ordinary life, which is very plain. And there's something depressing about that in a way, because you feel like you're this small little human, and you feel like it has nothing to do with you.
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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.
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Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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I have no human feelings.
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The worst of all human ailments: indecision.
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
