Human Quotes
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
Herodotus
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The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.
Nicholas G. Carr
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We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.
Paul Nitze
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We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
Joanne Rowling
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Laughter is like the human body wagging its tail.
Anne Wilson Schaef
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What do you know about love? Are your feelings more holy than mine? Am I exempt from the knowledge of love until I become “of age?” Do I automatically become human enough when I start loving you and seeing things your way?
Beatrice Sparks
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I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority
Killer Mike
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Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it's not about your gender; it's about us being human, being in this together.
Bethany Cosentino
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Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're gonna do it in an honest way.
Michael Rapaport
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Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do?
Bill Mollison
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This joy that He brings us transcends every human trial, it is a joy that can strengthen even the weakest of hands.
Brenton Brown
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The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.
Walter Zettl
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He talks about human equality, the rights of man, nothing but that. How about the rights of woman, I’d like to scream at him. It’s fine to be a great democrat when you’ve a slave to rub your boots on.
Christina Stead
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This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. . . . Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Every human being is a work of art.
Wolf Vostell
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Human contact is a terrible drug. Sometimes, you’ll even take the hit you know is tainted. You can’t stop yourself. The need is too strong.
Catherynne M. Valente
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People align with movements they can believe in, and it is the human, intellectual, and financial investment in genuine content that defines experiences.
Brian Solis
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I'm a human being and I will make mistakes from time to time but what I will say is that any mistakes I make are very honest ones.
Nigel Pearson
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Errors are what make us human. Plot twist: i'm a horse.
Amy King
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Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?
Catherynne M. Valente
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I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.
Mohamed ElBaradei
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Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
Diane Ackerman
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Human life is too difficult for people.
Paul Engle