Human Beings Quotes - Page 37

• We worship God, but have no faith in the workings of God's laws of love. The world awaits the living of the law of love, which will reach the divine within all human beings and transform them.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Law, World, Worship

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.103, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness of the residents. Because they had no rich lives beyond the hospital, they assumed no one else did, either. In the end, what they lacked was not medical knowledge but ordinary life experience.

  Michael Crichton

  Rich Life, Medical Knowledge, Facts

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.108, Vintage

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• Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .

  John Wayne

  Views, Communism, Point Of View

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• The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

  Richard Neutra

  Design, Architect, Canon

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• For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair".... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Issues, Long

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

  Salman Rushdie

  Perception, Lenses, Phrases

  "Imaginary Homelands". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1992.

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• In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop eating when they're not hungry and stop breeding when there is no sense in breeding. By contrast, human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order. For a long time, our unnatural beahvior didn't threaten the natural world, but now it does.

  Sam Keen

  Thinking, Animal, Order

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• A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Half, Way, Humans

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• If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Cutting, Apples, Tree

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• It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.

  John Naisbitt

  Information, Conclusion, Humans

  John Naisbitt (2009). “Mind Set!: Eleven Ways to Change the Way You See--and Create--the Future”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything's still here. I'm OK!" We like to tease ourselves. Human beings have a need to get close to the edge, and when filmmakers or writers can take them to the edge, it feels like a dream where you're falling, but you wake up just before you hit the ground.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dream, Fall, Scary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we unravel the theological tomes of the ages, the makeup of God becomes quite clear.  God is a human being without human limitations who is read into the heavens.  We disguised this process by suggesting that the reason God was so much like a human being was that the human beings were in fact created in God's image.  However, we now recognize that if was the other way around.  The God of theism came into being as a human creation.  As such, this God, too, was mortal and is now dying.

  John Shelby Spong

  Makeup, Heaven, Dying

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• The right to express one's views, practice one's faith, peacefully assemble with others to pursue political or social change - these are all rights to which all human beings are entitled, whether they choose to exercise them in a city square or an Internet chat room. And just as we have worked together since the last century to secure these rights in the material world, we must work together in this century to secure them in cyberspace.

  Hillary Clinton

  Exercise, Squares, Rights

  Address to the Ministerial Conference on Internet Freedom, delivered 8 December 2011, Fokker Terminal, The Hague, Netherlands

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• There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Two, People, Kind

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• I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can neither innovate nor even understand the self-evident proposition: 'No spatial structure can be a representation of any feeling'. Such innovation can only be a work of a non-spatial mind, like a human being, and only such innovation, it should be acknowledged, can pave the way for further scientific achievements.

  Kedar Joshi

  Smart, Intelligent, Self

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• When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Mirrors, Ordinary, Looks

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• Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.

  Jose Contreras

  Pitching, Great Friend, Incredibles

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• ...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology  to permeate every aspect of our lives.  In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety...  While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.

  Morris Berman

  Fate, Technology, Two

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• Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.

  Mary Travers

  People, Together, Moments

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• How do you know if the next act you are about to do is the right one or the wrong one? Consider the face of the poorest and most vulnerable human being that you have ever chanced upon, and ask yourself if the act that you contemplate will be of benefit to that person; and if it will be, it's the right thing to do, and if not, rethink it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Benefits, Next, Faces

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• Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence.  At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection.

  Masami Saionji

  Perfect, Scales, Existence

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• Let us respect the unique character and the personal world of each and every human being

  Masami Saionji

  Character, Unique, World

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• All human beings, without exception, are continually creating themselves with the life-energy that is flowing within them

  Masami Saionji

  Creating, Energy, Exception

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• That's what makes you a human being---that willingness to sing another one free.

  Martin Prechtel

  Humans, Willingness

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• Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Soul, Quality, Sincerity

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