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• Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

  Deepak Chopra

  Drug, Done, Kind

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 1)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.

  Lauren Conrad

  Plant, Responsible, Humans

  "Lauren Conrad Talks to Glamour: 'My Friends Are Everything'". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. April 1, 2010.

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• Sports is the toy department of human life.

  Howard Cosell

  Sports, Toys, Humans

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• Human life is beyond comprehension.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Life, Inspire, Comprehension

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

  Freeman Dyson

  Technology, Simple, Medieval Europe

  "Infinite in All Directions, Ch. 8 : Quick Is Beautiful, p. 135". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1988.

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• Nothing in human life is inherently private.

  Terry Eagleton

  Life Is, Humans

  "Leveson inquiry: the frontiers of privacy" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

  Roger Ebert

  Raises Questions, Fiction, Answers

  "Prometheus" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. June 6, 2012.

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• If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Squirrels, History

  "Middlemarch". Volume 1,

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• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Food, Sleep

  "Aspects of the Novel".

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• Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Biographies, Contradiction, Humans

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• The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Poet, Ends

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• The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

  Emma Goldman

  Change, Men, Diversity

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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• Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

  Alison Gopnik

  Baby, Children, Childhood

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• A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

  William Greider

  Country, Giving, Profound

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• At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

  Gary Hamel

  Heart, Yield, Comfort

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• Custom is the great guide to human life.

  David Hume

  Guides, Humans, Customs

  Terence Penelhum, David Hume (1992). “David Hume: an introduction to his philosophical system”, Purdue Univ Pr

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• Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

  King Hussein I

  Inspirational, Life, Kings

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• Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

  William Ralph Inge

  Death, Grieving, Profound

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• The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Air, Facts, Pollution

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• Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Littles, States

  Rasselas ch. 11 (1759)

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• Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Jesus, Character, Thinking

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• I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Thinking, People

  "Journalist Sebastian Junger". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 10, 2011.

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• I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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• Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Men, Weapons, Becoming

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• I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Men, Self

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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