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• What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Want, Rise Above, Said

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, May, Dignity

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.72, Beacon Press

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• How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has the power of Heaven on his side. After all, Christ was a man." "He was also the Son of God, there's a difference." "Do you think they could have crucified him if he wasn't human?" I asked. "He was flesh and blood, just like Xavier. You've been here so long you underestimate the power of humans. They're a force of nature.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Son, Army, Men

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• Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree.

  Nalini Singh

  Animal, Views, World

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.205, Penguin

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• You should go." "I can't." "Because you want to stare at the monster?" Alec's green eyes blaze, but with a wholly human fire now. "Or because you pity me?" I couldn't guess which possibility he loathes more. I fold my arms. "I can't leave because the door's locked. Believe me, I would've gone hours ago if I could have." "Oh. Of course." Then he looks so abashed--so boyish, and so handsome--that I almost want to laugh.

  Claudia Gray

  Believe, Eye, Doors

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• This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .

  Salman Rushdie

  Race, Different, May

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• Having said that, I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the customers in the bar I had to fortify myself by gulping down a glass of liquor. The desire to see frightening things—that was what drew me every night to the bar where, like the child who squeezes his pet all the harder when he actually fears it a little, I proclaimed to the customers standing at the bar my drunken, bungling theories of art.

  Osamu Dazai

  Art, Children, Night

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• In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his charms but his defences, plotting to disrobe, somewhere along the night-- his body without the aperture of the heart or his heart with a door closed to his body. thus keeping one compartment for refuge, one uninvaded cell.

  Anais Nin

  Heart, Night, Doors

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• Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.

  David Nicholls

  Effort, Energy, Decent

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

  George Orwell

  Love, Loyalty, Essence

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Safe, Morality, Guides

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those things here." I believe the discussion itself is divine. Abraham does his best to bargain with God, most of the book of Job consists of arguments by Job and his friends about the deepest questions of human suffering, God is practically on trial in the book of Lamentations, and Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Jobs, Believe

  Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions”, p.4, HarperCollins UK

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• Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Greatness, Trying, Facts

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• I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans.

  Karen Hesse

  Thinking, Rooms, Drowning

  Karen Hesse (2004). “The Music of Dolphins”, p.110, Oxford University Press, USA

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• One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.

  Walker Percy

  Self, Peculiar, Cosmos

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

  John Green

  Worry, Consciousness, Oblivion

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

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• No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Looks, Want, Might

  "Welcome to the N.H.K". Book by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, 2002.

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• ... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

  Anne Lamott

  Law, People, Being Human

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• How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Blessing, Appreciate, Way

  Peter F. Hamilton (2009). “Pandora's Star”, p.271, Pan Macmillan

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• Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Book, Winning, Romance

  Jayne Ann Krentz (1992). “Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance”, p.5, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Thinking, Evil

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• You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.

  Margaret Weis

  Father, Dragons, Blood

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2006). “Dragonlance Chronicles”

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• Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Animal, Pyramids

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Pyramids: (Discworld Novel 7)”, p.165, Random House

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• All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

  Lord Byron

  Food, Men, Apples

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Thirteenth”

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• To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Space, Forever, Devil

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