Human Quotes
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
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No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there? Probably the only thing that separates us from other creatures is that we aren't limited by our basic needs, like food and water; we have this sense of the whole.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
