Human Quotes
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Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
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Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
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I noticed that when I went to see the rushes or the first showing that there was something quite human in this desperation, and I hadn't planned it.
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I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
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I'm a human being just like you are. And I hurt and love just like everybody else, and people tend to forget that. I think I'm one of the friendliest celebrities around, because I'll stop to talk to anybody who recognizes me. I don't have a negative bone in my body. That's why I could care less about any gossip. It doesn't interest me. I'd rather sit down and write a song.
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A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.
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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
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All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.
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I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.
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There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.
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Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
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Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948.
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You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.
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The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."
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Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.
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Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.
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It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone.
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My friends hated going out with me because people think they can grab you and talk to you how they want. At the end of the day, you're still a human being, and I don't like being treated that way - I prefer to live a quiet life.
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A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Talent is what makes you stand in awe of a human.
