Human Quotes
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The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.
Abraham Lincoln
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Another huge advantage that humans have is good old common sense.
Andrew McAfee
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There is no such thing as an immortal work of art. There is one art - the greatest of all, the art of making a complete human being of oneself.
Alfred Richard Orage
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Momentary pleasures of hedonism are distinct from deeper and more lasting satisfaction; and in order to achieve such satisfaction, we need to reflect on who we are and what our lives are for. We cannot be fully human without thinking about what being human means.
Eva Hoffman
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I WOULD LIKE, to begin with, to say that though parents, husbands, children, lovers and friends are all very well, they are not dogs. In my day and turn having been each of the above,—except that instead of husbands I was wives,—I know what I am talking about, and am well acquainted with the ups and downs, the daily ups and downs, the sometimes almost hourly ones in the thin-skinned, which seem inevitably to accompany human loves. Dogs are free from these fluctuations. Once they love, they love steadily, unchangingly, till their last breath. That is how I like to be loved. Therefore I will write of dogs.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
Ernest Cline
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I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
Judy Chicago
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Good films not only help me grow as an actor but as a human being.
Vicky Kaushal
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The author of “The Little Labyrinth” indicates that the Theodotians maintained that their view—that Jesus was completely human, and not divine, but that he was adopted to be the Son of God—had been the doctrine taught by the apostles themselves and by most of the church in Rome until the time of Bishop Victor, at the end of the second century.
Bart Ehrman
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I'm terribly human.
Rickie Lee Jones
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The purest natural food for human beings would be fresh, uncooked food and nuts. A fare which consists of three-quarters of vegetable food and one-quarter meat would appear to be the most satisfactory.
George Hackenschmidt
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The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship.
Walter Russell
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What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
Brennan Manning
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I am alive. I am human. I am loved.
Barbara O'Neal
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Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.
Gene Chandler
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A person is not an artist in one compartment and a human being in another.
Norbert Elias
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I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.
Robert Rodriguez Chingon
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I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.
Bruce Willis
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The price of clothes may be low, but they are paid for with human lives.
Katharine Hamnett
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Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
Alexander McQueen
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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.
Rick Yancey
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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.
Michio Kaku
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Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the joy of it, a blaze of roughhewn wood like a child's laugh, a symbol of the eternity that preceded human thought, a free fire, a gift from heaven, a living sign of the elements unnoticed by the world-weary pedestrian, a fire in the ditches of Prague warming the wanderer's eye and soul.
Bohumil Hrabal
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I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine
Rumi