Humans Quotes
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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.
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It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
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I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.
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Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
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It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
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It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.
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Once she exclaimed, "But I always thought that sorceresses were evil!" "What do you mean 'evil'?" Lynet has never considered the question. "You know," she said, after a moment, "unfriendly to people." "People!" repeated Morgana derisively. "As if humans were all that mattered. Just once I'd like to see people judged by how friendly they are to sorceresses.
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Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
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I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.
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God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.
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I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.
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It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.
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To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.
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I realized that there are some things about all of us, no matter where we're from, that we are connected and we are all still humans, and we are all still looking for the same sort of contentment in our life in one way or another. Some people are searching a little harder than others, granted. But we're not so different.
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What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
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The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.
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Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
