Quotes with semi-human

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  • Louis de Bernieres God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • J. G. Ballard God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bob Barr Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Grenville Kleiser Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Ann Veneman Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Elizabeth Janeway Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
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  • Alexis Carrel Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Albert Camus He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Harold Wilson He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
    Harold Wilson
    British Labour politician (1916 - 1995)
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  • Arthur Miller He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Akhenaton Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Robert Wilson Hedonic Engineering - The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
    Prodigal Summer
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • John A. Hannah Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
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