Quotes 401 till 420 of 1426.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
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Human nature is not of itself vicious.
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
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Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future -and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
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Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
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Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.
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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
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Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.... Realistic, comprehensively responsible, omni-system-considerate, unselfish thinking on the part of humans does absolutely affect human destiny.
Critical Path (1981)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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