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Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware… — Peter Cosgrove Copy Share Image
most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ...… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I think Dexter is a man who ... a part of himself is very much frozen, or arrested in a place that… — Michael C. Hall Copy Share Image
“It is pointless to worry about the possible malevolent intentions of an advanced civilization with whom we might make contact. It is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
A lot of military people just take orders, and there is a place for that. But SEALs think for themselves from day… — Howard E. Wasdin Copy Share Image
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries,… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Living an awakened life [...] is just a matter of where our attention is being placed. It is possible for our human-beingness… — Alice Gardner Copy Share Image
Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
It's definitely a challenge, but it's even more than that. Beyond the basic need to understand what you're saying, a computer needs… — Peter P. Mahoney Copy Share Image
I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events,… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls… — Brent Runyon Copy Share Image
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Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
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Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
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