Quotes 361 till 380 of 1426.
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Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
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History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
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History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
Paradise (1998) -
How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought...
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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
Who Is Man? (1965) -
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
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Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
Cosmos (1980)
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