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Humans Quotes by Douglas Adams
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to…
- Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
- One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very…
- Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a…
- Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said…
- Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like…
- If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond…
- It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for…
- Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he…
- Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.
- Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.
- Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in…
More Humans 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
- 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