Humans Quotes
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Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else. Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things. Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.
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Living only in the present isn’t freedom. Living only in the present isn’t even human if you think about it. Humans, unlike any other animal on the planet, remember the past. We understand our nature. And we try to build on both of them. We are an aspirational species; we look to the future.
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How can you help the human race progress?
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Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.
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I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.
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Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.
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I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.
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Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from being distant or "sacred" to being more human, because then I think it becomes easier to feel like poetry belongs to us, is for us, is from us.
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As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.
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I felt before I thought, as all humans do.
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Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
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If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'
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Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
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I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.
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A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
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We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.
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Humans are very imaginative animals.
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If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.
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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.
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I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.
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Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
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Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.
