Human Quotes
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For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
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Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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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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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.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
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Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
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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.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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At the end of the day, we need to realize that segregation is not the human condition at its best. Which isn't to say we need to all be the same. It simply means we need to embrace each other's differences to help tell our stories together.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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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.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
