Human Quotes
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Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
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It's about being human. It's beautiful, it's touching, it's acting. It's acting and reality at the same time.
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What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.
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Allegory is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.
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I'm sure it has to be a species distinct from us. There is speculation that it could be a diseased human, but this is nothing like that.
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The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.
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I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in the future. But conveying that knowledge now is rather like a chimpanzee, becoming a human for a single day to experience all of the wonders of human knowledge, and then returning to one's chimp friends and trying to tell them what it was like knowing several different Romance languages, the calculus, and the immense scale of the universe.
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He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.
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No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.
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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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Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.
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I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…
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Lena held up a hand to silence him. “Say no more, human,” she demanded sternly. After much travail, I have reclaimed my true life. Do not attempt to befuddle me. I need time alone to realign my thoughts.” With a wink, she disappeared beneath the water.
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I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.
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Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human.
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Chimpanzees are especially suited to teach us about ourselves. Comparing the genomes will help us address the question of the specific things that make us human.
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We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.
