Humans Quotes
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.
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We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.
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So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
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About 99 percent of genes in humans have counterparts in the mouse. Eighty percent have identical, one-to-one counterparts.
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A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
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The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.
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Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.
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Ultimately we're all faced with the same things and that's what brings us together. It's just human nature to be terrified and that doesn't necessarily manifest itself in completely different ways.
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I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what God has made and to treasure God's own treasures.
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We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.
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The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.
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Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.
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If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.
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Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
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No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations.
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Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.
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We humans like to know where we are headed, but creativity demands that we travel paths that lead to who-knows-where.
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Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.
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Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine.
