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Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other… — William A. Connelly Copy Share Image
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of… — Peter Sellers Copy Share Image
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The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
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I am one Dana when I am talking to my daughter, another when I am talking to the IRS, and another still… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that it is the intuitive, spiritual aspects of us humans-the inner voice-that gives us the 'knowing,' the peace,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France… — Feist Copy Share Image
I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players.… — Rita Coolidge Copy Share Image
There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Stories are at the very heart of being human; they talk about where we're from, where we are, and where we're going.… — Bill Harley Copy Share Image
If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived… — Moby Copy Share Image
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There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We cannot talk with [animals] as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels.… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
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![“Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the…” quote by Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0b/thomas-huxley-1183_animal_perhaps-no-order-of-mammals-presents-us_3051.jpg)
![“I knew [Jesse Owens'] name, but I really didn't remember what it is he had done, so I felt like I had to get refreshed. So I read the script and I realized like, wow, this is an incredible human being. I told my manager, however I had to do it, let me see the director; I got to play him.” quote by Stephan James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae4/stephan-james-17537_directors_i-knew-jesse-owens-name-but-i-really-did_1846344.jpg)
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