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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe — we are happiest when we are creating.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data', has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
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