Quotes 161 till 180 of 1426.
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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon.
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Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.
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Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003) -
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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