Humans Quotes
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One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.
Diane Ackerman
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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
William Shakespeare
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It had been this way since my beginning, born on a forest lookout station in the High Sierras, surrounded by millions of acres of wilderness and many more animals than humans. Since infancy, the first faces I imprinted, the first faces I ever really loved, were animal.
Brenda Peterson
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If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'
Stephane Hessel
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Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.
Sepp Blatter
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Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.
Michael Shermer
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Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
Miep Gies
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For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
Michael Chabon
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It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
William Feather
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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.
Donald Miller
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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard Feynman
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We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.
Winnie Byanyima
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To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life.
Barbara Brennan
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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.
George Karl
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Whatever subjectivity we are going to talk about is going to be in an intersubjectivity of human beings that have a certain nature and have certain needs to be met and have to figure out how exactly to do that.
William G. Kline
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Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that which constitutes human good, namely activity that attains desiderata, where the attainment is in accord with virtue.
Ernest Sosa
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I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?
Moshe Vardi
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Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.
Brian Swimme
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In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.
Sherman Alexie
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Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.
Terence McKenna
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The Javanese Anthropopithecus, which in its skull is more human than any other known anthropoid ape, already had an upright, erect posture, which has always been considered to be the exclusive privilege of humans.
Eugene Dubois
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How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.
William Schreyer
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Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.
Genesis P-Orridge
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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.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.