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Human Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
- It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
- If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment...
- It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
- Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory…
- Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone…
- If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity…
- Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle…
- I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active…
- There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a…
- No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily…
- Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.
- Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the…
- Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart…
- Let the most vigorous of human imaginations but attempt to take a single step toward the comprehension of a circuit so unutterable.
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- 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
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong