Humans Quotes
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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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Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
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No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.
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To me, words are like stickpins. I can throw a word at you and it will bounce right off your body. But if I take that little stickpin and wire it to the back of an iron bar called human emotion, I can put that thing right through your heart.
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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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As humans, we have a hunger to discover something new, reach new meaning, understand better the universe and our place in it.
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What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.
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Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.
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Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
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I think the idea of migration through time is very important because every human being does that and it unites us with people who migrate through geography.
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Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.
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What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.
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let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
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Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention.
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Humans were my study animal now - I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals. I never listened to what they were saying - I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.
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You know, your species humans has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.
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The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
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What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.
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More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.
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If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
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You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.
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The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This is because it also does not contain perfect sadness nor misery nor death. What lies in waiting is a paradise for wolves alone, the unclean humans are no more...come with me Cheza, it is time.
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We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.
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To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.
