Short quotations about, human - Page 5

Anna Louise Strong

To fall in love is easy, even to re…

13 Oct , 2011  

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. Great short quote and quotation by: Anna Louise Strong ,

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Horace Mann

To pity distress is but human; to r…

13 Oct , 2011  

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. Great short quote and quotation by: Horace Mann , US educator (1796 – 1859)

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Truth must necessarily be stranger …

5 Aug , 2011  

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. Great short quote and quotation by: G. K. Chesterton , English author & mystery novelist (1874 – 1936)

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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Understanding human needs is half t…

4 Aug , 2011  

Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. Great short quote and quotation by: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech, October 3, 1952 , US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 – 1965)

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Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown

Unlike human beings, computers poss…

9 Jul , 2011  

Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate. Great short quote and quotation by: Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown ,

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Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo"

Until divinity decides to reveal th…

9 Jul , 2011  

Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexandre Dumas, Translation from “The Count of Monte Cristo” , French dramatist & novelist (1802 – 1870)

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Howard Zinn

Was all this bloodshed and deceit -…

15 Feb , 2011  

Was all this bloodshed and deceit – from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans – a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made – as it was […]

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Richard Feynman

We are at the very beginning of tim…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. Great short quote and […]

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We are armed with language adequate…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry David Thoreau , US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

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We are here and it is now. Further …

15 Feb , 2011  

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. Great short quote and quotation by: H. L. Mencken , US editor (1880 – 1956)

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We are here and it is now. Further …

15 Feb , 2011  

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. Great short quote and quotation by: H. L. Mencken , US editor (1880 – 1956)

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Josephine Hart, "Sin"

We are here to add to the sum of hu…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because […]

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