Humans Quotes
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A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.
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We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.
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Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.
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Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.
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Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.
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Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.
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Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.
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Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.
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if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.
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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.
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The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
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The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled.
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The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with the Gospel betrays layers and layers of seriously misguided thinking. When we divorce God's love from sexual love, as Pope Benedict says, 'the essence of Christianity' becomes 'decisively cut off from the complex fabric of human life.'
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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
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If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
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... The reality is that atmospheric CO2 has a minimal impact on greenhouse gases and world temperature. Water vapor is responsible for 95 percent of the greenhouse effect. CO2 contributes just 3.6 percent, with human activity responsible for only 3.2 percent of that. That is why some studies claim CO2 levels are largely irrelevant to global warming.
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All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.
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Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
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Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
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There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are the most ruthless and the most persistent harbored in the human breast. They sometimes sleep but they never seem to die. Anything, any extraordinary situation, any unnecessary controversy, may light those fires again and plant in our republic that which has destroyed every republic which undertook to nurse it.
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Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.
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If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
