Humans Quotes
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We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.
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The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.
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If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.
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The Antropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population that followed World War II. By this account, it's with the introduction of modern technologies—turbines, railroads, chainsaws—that humans became a world-altering force. But the megafauna extinction suggests otherwise. Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever did.
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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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It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.
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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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People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
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Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.
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Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.
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We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'
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I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
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We need people pushing the boundaries. Exploration is what we, as humans, do.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally involved and human, they keep waiting and hoping until their loss gets much bigger and costs them dearly.
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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
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I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.
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Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
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Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
