Quotes with semi-human

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  • George Tooker Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
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  • Cat Stevens Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Florence King People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Blanka Vlasic People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.
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  • Carl Lewis People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • James Baldwin People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Amartya Sen People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Germaine Greer Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Andre Norton Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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  • Bill Forsyth Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Kate Millet Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • James Baldwin Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • James Baldwin Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Carl Sagan Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down - toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • William James Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Abba Eban Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Allen Ginsberg Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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