How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Health and Human Services has an enormous amount of discretion that they have so far used to make it harder to get… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I really enjoy the experience of playing humans. The psychological game is so much more important. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
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The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
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I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
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It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
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Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a human being, can we justify assuming without proof… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
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