Human Quotes
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We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The emission of ideas by the press ought to be as free as the human capacity for thought.
Benito Juarez
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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
Carl Andre
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A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.
Idries Shah
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In a sense, human flesh is made of stardust.
Nigel Calder
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By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.
Terence Lewis
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Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is to radiate. The task of the human being is also to radiate.
Alonzo King
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I ultimately want to contribute something toward bettering human relations.
Murray Head
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Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.
Averroes
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When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.
Benjamin Jealous
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I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.
Chris Wyse
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My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
Margaret Anderson
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You are awareness disguised as a human being.
Oprah Winfrey
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Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.
Aristotle
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The human experience is all about learning as much as yuh can…
Skip Marley
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Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.
Lewis H. Lapham
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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.
Oprah Winfrey
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Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.
Vinoba Bhave
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The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.
Josh Hawley
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Africa is still lying ready for us it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race more of the best the most human, most honorable race the world possesses.
Cecil Rhodes
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Nothing human is foreign to us.
Edward G. Robinson
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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.
Sigmund Freud
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Questions are taken for granted rather than given a starring role in the human drama. Yet all my teaching and consulting experience has taught me that what builds a relationship, what solves problems, what moves things forward is asking the right questions.
Edgar Schein
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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.
Leslie Caron