Humans Quotes
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The answer is: the rational faculty, the ability to conceptualize. This was a giant step in evolution, although there were evidently many intermediate species between the apes and modern humans across a period of perhaps six million years.
Edwin A. Locke -
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
Raymond Williams
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Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.
Sandra Bernhard -
It is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.
Hugo Black -
Ultimately we're all faced with the same things and that's what brings us together. It's just human nature to be terrified and that doesn't necessarily manifest itself in completely different ways.
Cassidy Erin Gifford -
Perhaps I am a foolish, fond old dragon who never learns from his own mistakes. But I have to believe that the humans and the dragons are capable of living together. I have to hope that the impossible can be possible. I have to trust in the boy and hope for the best...
Cressida Cowell -
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
Michael Caine -
Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
Susanne Langer
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I am human and I make mistakes.
Cat Power -
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
Michael Pollan -
We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.
Suzanne Weyn -
I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.
Hayao Miyazaki -
. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.
Steve Martin -
Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.
Northrop Frye
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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.
Seth Godin -
When the fire is over, always, in the ashes, our opportunities to repair, to move forward without vengeance being required - that's kind of the way us humans seem to live. We make massive mistakes. We do stupid things. We do things to survive. And then there's an opportunity to learn from them and move forward with grace. And forgiveness and that gracefulness are very connected.
Elizabeth Lesser -
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.
Erin Gruwell -
Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.
Richard Adams -
NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science.
Walter Cunningham -
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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Everything which is human is alien to me.
Erlend Loe -
Humans are very imaginative animals.
Susumu Tonegawa -
In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.
Evo Morales -
Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
Terence McKenna