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Humans Quotes by Richard Leakey
- My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
- It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause
- The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here…
- Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.
- Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans,…
- As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in…
- It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this…
- To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.
- For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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