Human Quotes
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Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.
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I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
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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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The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
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(In reply to 'So, you could technically eat a human?') "Could and would.”
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Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment.
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The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.
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Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
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Every human is like a close bud its glory is in blooming. So, evolve consciously to bloom.
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It must be tiring being Bob Dylan for the past 50 years. People act like he's not even human, which must be hard work. Every room he walks into just goes quiet.
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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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The emission of ideas by the press ought to be as free as the human capacity for thought.
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Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.
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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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Nothing human is foreign to us.
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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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A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.
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My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
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We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.
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Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.
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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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Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.
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I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.
