Human Quotes
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Those who insist that a Church program exist for every contingency and need are as much in error as their counterparts who demand that government intervene in every aspect of our lives. In both instances the ideal balance is destroyed with a resultant detriment to human progress.
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My dream, now, is that people will discover and invent new ways to fly higher, faster and farther and that someday humans will travel beyond our solar system.
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Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
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We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.
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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
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A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
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It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
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I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
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A great library contains the diary of the human race.
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I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.
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We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we’re here for, how to live more poetically.
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I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
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Human beings absolutely follow through on who they believe they are
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One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.
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Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.
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The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.
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It’s so silly to me to have 30,000 people facing and worshipping this one dorky human who’s lucky enough to be playing music for everyone else.
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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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I mean, he himself defined his ministry as being focused on the poor, the captive, the blind, the oppressed (Luke 4:18). So, therefore, we join him on mission not only when we proclaim his saving gospel but when we confront injustice, when we touch human need, when we seek to bring about changes that transform this world to look more like it will be when Jesus returns.
