Humans Quotes
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I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
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Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives.
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If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?
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Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
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Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks are killed. And we have to limit interaction between humans and birds, which is a huge challenge within an environment where people are used to living very close to their chickens.
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What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.
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I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.
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Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.
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Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.
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Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.
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Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.
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Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.
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In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.
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Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.
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Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.
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The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
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My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full complement of species, returning throughout the world.
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Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.
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We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.
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At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.
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The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.
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It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.
