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I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
View quotes by Franklin D Roosevelt

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvellously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex.
View quotes by Alice Childress

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
View quotes by Jonathan Swift

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Does feminist mean a large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up.
View quotes by Margaret Atwood

Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue'
View quotes by Imannuel Kant

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
View quotes by William Hazlitt

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
View quotes by Thornton Wilder

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
View quotes by Florence King

The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will.
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For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
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As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
View quotes by John Stuart Mill

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
View quotes by Barbara De Angelis

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

View quotes by George Santayana

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
View quotes by Walter Lippmann

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