Human Beings Quotes - Page 31

• On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.

  Bei Dao

  Hands, Useless, World

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Discovery, Way, Moments

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• My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.

  Mario Bunge

  Reality, Ice, Roots

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

  Jack Higgins

  Hollywood, Mixtures, Individual

  Source: www.blackfive.net

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• I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining.

  Ken Yeang

  Nature, Thinking, Self

  "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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• My values are primarily motivated by love for other people. I value the non-human world in large part because it's so vital to human beings. Even my appreciation for wilderness grows out of an understanding of how important wilderness can be for people.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Appreciation, People, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Opportunity, People, Addiction

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The important thing is to go back to wholeness. It's time for human beings to come into a sustainable world.

  Chellis Glendinning

  Important, World, Humans

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.

  Adam Haslett

  Running, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: threeguysonebook.com

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• We [human beings] are two-legged omnivorous animals, and this means that we have many ecological niches, regarding the possible places where we can live. Therefore, we have to adapt to these different environments and we cannot predict, in a generic way, in which type of world we are going to live (cold as the North Pole or hot as Congo).

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Mean, Animal, Two

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• It comes out of human beings, it comes from the dark side of the human being, when people don't give a hoot about other people and they'll steal and rob and rob the food out of baby's mouths, so it's incumbent on every new generation to develop a social conscience and to really defend themselves. And that takes demonstrations sometimes.

  Luis Valdez

  Baby, Dark, People

  Source: www.geekscape.net

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• The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.

  Bob Hartley

  Ice, Differences, Coaching

  Source: flamesnation.ca

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• No relationship is perfect and no human being is perfect.

  Amerie

  Perfect, Humans

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• I think human beings have a basic instinct to be free and explore their world in their own way. I've always been driven to look at life as something which we should try to plunge into rather than sit back. You have to be able to have fun and keep creating a sense of excitement to how you approach the world.

  Jack Nicholson

  Fun, Thinking, Creating

  Source: cinema.com

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• There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.

  Alex Jones

  People, Genius, Commodity

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Ideas, One Day, Sitting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our insight and protection as a writers. This is our authority as women, as human beings.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Humanity, Protection

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The physical world is the point of departure from whence the magician works and upon which every human being, initiated or not, live and moves through his senses, his spirit, his soul and his physical body.

  Franz Bardon

  Moving, Soul, Magic

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• ... All these preparations clearly show that a human being must perfect himself in the physical world through his magical development in order to be prepared for the higher astral world after death.

  Franz Bardon

  Order, Perfect, Magic

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• We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we deny that, what is the cost? So I do think it's what binds us as human beings.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Memories, Animal, Thinking

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Needs, Landscape, Speak

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.

  James Surowiecki

  Procrastination, Thinking, Years

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• We have nightmares because our brain is running simulations to put us in jeopardy to see what we'll do or to acclimatize us to that idea that something bad could happen. It's just how human beings are wired because the entire time we were evolving we had to jump quick or the leopard would get us or whatever it was. It's Darwinian.

  James Cameron

  Running, Ideas, Brain

  "James Cameron Interview, Sanctum". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. February 2011.

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• It is very different. I mean, it was immediately different because it's a human being and it's not a vampire and it's not fighting monsters. This isn't the kind of movie that's got the comic book style of fighting to it. It was a bit more gritty.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Book, Mean, Fighting

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

  Olivia Wilde

  Appreciate, Connections, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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