Human race Quote by Salman Rushdie

““The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.””

Salman Rushdie

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

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Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed…

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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

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If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull…

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“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.”

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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall…

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I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

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Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,…

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“...proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.”

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“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a…

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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To…

Margaret Mead

I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries or nationalist identity. We're going to be up against challenges that we can barely fathom at this point. So how we embrace them and deal with them will define a great many things about where we…

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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

William Blake

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“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected…

C.S. Lewis

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“It occurred to me that the death of his grazing land hurt him more, incomparably more than the death of the human race. I…

Peter Heller

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“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” —Albert A. Bartlett”

Erik Brynjolfsson

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“My problem is that the human race seems to want to be destroyed!”

Jhonen Vasquez

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“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in 1898, long before the First World War (1914-1918). In the title story he proves to his own grim satisfaction, and to mine as well, that Satan and not God created the planet earth and "the damned…

Kurt Vonnegut

“both the Mosaic law and the grace of the new covenant, as both fitted for the times [at which they were given], were bestowed…

The Church Fathers

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“Human race had never planned to show up in this universe. I wonder whether current human efforts are relevant to its sustainability.”

Toba Beta

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As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…

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“They all deserve to die. Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why. Because in all of the whole human race Mrs Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two There's the one they put in his proper place And the one with his foot in the other one's face Look at me, Mrs Lovett, look at you.…

Stephen Sondheim

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