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I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my dut...

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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility up...

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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to kno...

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God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise ...

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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not...

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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a...

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I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that th...

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Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infra...

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We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most ba...

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Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many t...

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When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappe...

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Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership...

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We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation sh...

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Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily com...

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The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenaci...

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But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or us...

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And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambi...

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For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Ri...

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Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required ...

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only ...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Huma...

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Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They t...

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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes...

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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit ...

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In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human l...

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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre...

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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races,...

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The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves fo...

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Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.

You are human and fallible.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more bri...

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Death is part of who we are. It guidesus. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be hu...

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It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human...

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What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach...

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Clarice LispectorThe Passion According to G.H.

You make me feel too human, Joe. All I want is peace and quiet, not love. I'm a tired old lady, Joe,...

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You make me feel too human, Joe. All I want is peace and quiet, not love. I'm a tired old lady, Joe,...

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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. D...

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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

All the lot. Their spunk is gone dead. Motor-cars and cinemas and aeroplanes suck that last bit out ...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover:

Our search for safety and contentment is endless and inexhaustible precisely because of the intrinsi...

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Dallas WillardThe Divine Conspiracy Continued: Fulfilling God's Kingdom on Earth

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and ...

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I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in th...

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Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult r...

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So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing wit...

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I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I though...

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I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

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David EaglemanIncognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with ...

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David EaglemanSum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict ...

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If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would b...

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You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside o...

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...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.

He would pray...for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.

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Dean KoontzWhat the Night Knows

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human...

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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a car, I sh...

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We are wired to be caring for the other and generous to one another. We shrivel when we are not able...

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Desmond TutuThe Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the...

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Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts o...

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ar...

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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process w...

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It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their ex...

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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test ...

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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...

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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...

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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To...

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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman...

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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than ...

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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act i...

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