Humans Quotes
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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.
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The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
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In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'
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Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.
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A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
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Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.
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It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
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Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.
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You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.
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Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
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Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.
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Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.
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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.
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I've never heard of a size 0 or a negative human. That's hard. A lot of girls aren't naturally built that way.
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If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.
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We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.
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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.
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Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.
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If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.
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...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.
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No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself
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You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.
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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
