Human Race Quotes - Page 19

• The human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Race, Problem, Humans

  Malaclypse the Younger, Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). “Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion”, p.187, Ronin Publishing

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• I'm a tired runner in the human race.

  Huey Lewis

  Tired, Reality, Race

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• If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.

  Roger McGuinn

  Space, Phones, Race

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• They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place.

  Richard Thompson

  Race, Pay, Lasts

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• Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Garden, Race

  Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

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• Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction.

  Francis William Aston

  Dream, Stars, Mean

  Nobel Lecture, 1922.

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• The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

  Bill James

  Struggle, Race, Long

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• All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

  Peter Kreeft

  Children, Race, Unborn Child

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• Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Sex, Race, Suffering

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• Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race; well, start killing some of its powerful members.

  William C. Brown

  Powerful, Race, Anarchy

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• Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

  Jonathan King

  Eye, Race, Media

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• I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.

  Lou Reed

  Education, Smart, Race

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.252, Da Capo Press

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• We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Children, Taken, Independent

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• There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

  Susan Powter

  Race, Half, Earth

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• The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there.

  John Romero

  Race, People, Use

  "The future of games is freedom". Interview with Alexander Gambotto-Burke, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2006.

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• The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.

  Shane Smith

  Race, Different, Kind

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• In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Girl, Successful, Reality

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• Some people think that, inevitably, every robot that does any task is a bad thing for the human race, because it could be taking a job away. But that isn't necessarily true. You can also think of the robot as making a person more productive and enabling people to do things that are currently economically infeasible. But a person plus a robot or a fleet of robots could do things that would be really useful.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

  Bernard Marcus

  Impact, Race, Medicine

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• The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

  Vernor Vinge

  Race, Extinction, Possibility

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• Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

  N. T. Wright

  Dream, Thinking, Race

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• The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Mistake, Race, Bigs

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• Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

  Walter Benjamin

  Race, Different, World

  "Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1938–1940". Book edited by Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings, 1996.

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• The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Thinking, Race, Political

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• We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Jesus, Race

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