Human Quotes
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel Johnson
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She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.
Charles Dickens
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So long as human beings can gain sufficient co-operation from some to enable them to dominate others, they will use the forms of law as one of their instruments. Wicked men will enact wicked rules which others will enforce. What surely is most needed in order to make men clear sighted in confronting the official abuse of power, is that they should preserve the sense that the certification of something as legally valid is not conclusive of the question of obedience, and that, however great the aura of majesty or authority which the official system may have, its demands must in the end be submitted to a moral scrutiny.
H. L. A. Hart
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
Victor Ponta
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
Karin Slaughter
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Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.
G. Frank Lawlis
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
Brown Campbell
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
Natascha McElhone
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
J. H. Wyman
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
Karan Johar
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I can't be a perfect role model because I'm human and I'm going to make mistakes.
MRSHLL
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
Mandy Patinkin
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
Said Musa
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
Nathaniel Rich
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All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
Harold Pinter
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
Sam Kean
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
Abraham Maslow
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I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.
Vincent Cassel
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
Gary Wolf
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
Adam Braun