Human Quotes
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The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually good for Ebola because they help Ebola change, and as a result of this, as it jumps from one human body to the next, roughly half the time, it's got a mutation.
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Should not the role of design be to reconnect human beings with their space on their land?
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A person is not an artist in one compartment and a human being in another.
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One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.
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We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.
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Evolutionary biologists often avoid using the term "race" because there is so much racist baggage that comes with the term. However, they are often okay with the idea that the genealogy of human groups within our species can sometimes be inferred in much the same way as the genealogy of different species.
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Merely being human is morally significant.
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With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
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Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right.
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The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth century before mathematicians felt comfortable dealing with zero and with negative numbers, and why even today many people cannot accept the square root of minus-one as a genuine number.
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Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.
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I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine
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You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
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The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship.
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I'm a great lover of human beings.
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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
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The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.
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What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human life on earth. My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give them. My life depends on ignoring all touted distinctions between the secular and the sacred, the physical and the spiritual, the body and the soul. What is saving my life now is becoming more fully human, trusting that there is no way to God apart from real life in the real world.
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Almost any job can make us better human beings if we do it with passion.
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Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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I feel like an old-fashioned mountain climber when I am making discoveries, seeing something for the first time, realizing that no human before me has ever seen what I am seeing. It takes your breath away - for just a moment, you feel a pause in time, as you know you are crossing a boundary into a new realm of knowledge.
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Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.
