Humans Quotes
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Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.
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Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
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The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
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In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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In other words: If an organism is stuck in survival mode, its energies are focused on fighting off unseen enemies, which leaves no room for nurture, care, and love. For us humans, it means that as long as the mind is defending itself against invisible assaults, our closest bonds are threatened, along with our ability to imagine, plan, play, learn, and pay attention to other people’s needs.
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Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.
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Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible.
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God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.
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Human beings crave freedom at their core.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.
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But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
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I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
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Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.
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Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
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Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.
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What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
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To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
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It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.
