Human Quotes
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed.
Abraham Lincoln
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Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing history is writing the soul of the past… so that the present generation may learn from past mistakes, be inspired by their ancestor’s sacrifices, and take responsibility for the future.
Epifanio de los Santos
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The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the individual person first in the political scheme of things and made the legitimacy of governments and ruling classes contingent on their success at preserving individual rights.
Alan Bock
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Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
Leonard Baskin
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Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.
Dalia Mogahed
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The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.
Buzz Aldrin
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Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
Henry Ward Beecher
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
Walter Isaacson
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My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
Flann O'Brien
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All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.
Odilon Redon
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The worst of all human ailments: indecision.
Napoleon Hill
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Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
Barry Hannah
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You can't be human alone.
Maggie Kuhn
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You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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The fiercest of beasts is the human. He kills even when he's not hungry.
Adriano Celentano
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If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.
Michael Jackson
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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.
Nick Corcodilos
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The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
Idries Shah
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I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.
Donald Miller
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The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can for me change this.
Albert Einstein
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To be fully and authentically human, we have to be prepared to take off the armor we usually go around wearing to keep the world from hurting us. We have to be prepared to accept pain, or else we will never dare to hope or to love
Harold Kushner