Humans Quotes
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Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
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It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.
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What's important is to remain human.
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A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
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Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.
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I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.
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Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.
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We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.
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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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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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Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.
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We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
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Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.
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Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
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You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel both a sense of responsibility and a deep sadness for those who have lost their lives.
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Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.
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Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.
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But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution.
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Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.
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This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.
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Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.
