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Human Quotes by Bill Bryson
- Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems…
- You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story…
- The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.
- Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
- It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely…
- ...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of…
- When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It…
- Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle