Humans Quotes
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Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?
Ray Bradbury
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The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
William H. Prescott
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Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.
Simon Sinek
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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
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Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.
Sharad Pawar
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As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.
Ricky Williams
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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.
Erin Gruwell
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Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it. That said, critiquing women's human shells isn't my thang. Though there's probably something funny or interesting to be said about those who do it, and what that comes from.
Sarah Silverman
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Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.
Mohsin Hamid
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We need people pushing the boundaries. Exploration is what we, as humans, do.
Heidi Hammel
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"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it has been in the province of religion and philosophy. Fifty or something years ago, however, it became part of science.
Paul Davies
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Humans - a renewable resource.
Carrie Vaughn
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I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
Richard Pryor
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The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
Northrop Frye
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Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.
Catherynne M. Valente
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
Thomas Sowell
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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
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Everything that humans can do a machine can do.
Moshe Vardi
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Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
Terence McKenna
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Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.
David Buss
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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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Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the true name that tells of its history and people and lands and weather and . . . everything?
Karen Lord
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The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.
Stevie Smith
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Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.
Anton Webern