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Human Quotes
Being human is a work in progress.
These human quotes take a reflective turn, covering our capacity to change and adapt, the elusive search for real satisfaction beyond consumption, and a candid look at why relationships often fall short of what we hope for. For more, see our Human Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human life is too difficult for people.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How children attempt to deal with everyday comedies and tragedies, and mortality, is universal and ultimately such a large part of what it means to be human.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human capital of most macroeconomists, heavily invested in demand management, was wiped out by the policy failures of the 1970s.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.
- Insanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like any organizer worth their salt, I'm open to critique, but I won't be bullied or treated badly. I'm an imperfect human, and as such, I have a proclivity to make mistakes. And while I make mistakes, I am not my mistakes.
- Capacity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The risk to cities from climate impacts carries great social and economic cost and, of course, the loss of human lives.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
- Endured
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
- Human Beings
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- Nov 07, 2020