Quotes with semi-human

Quotes 961 till 980 of 1426.

  • B. F. Skinner The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Okri The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Cat Stevens The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Atom Egoyan The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Edmund Burke The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Carlo Ratti The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Buzz Aldrin The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
    Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Bayard Taylor The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Elizabeth Janeway The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
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  • John F. Kennedy The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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