- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we look at the day-to-day suffering of the Venezuelan people, that's not about numbers: it's about human beings.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.
- Distributed
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Look of Silence' is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. It's distributed by two government bodies, the National Human Rights Commission and the Jakarta Arts Council.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.
- Nuclear Weapons
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020