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The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
Matt Blunt
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We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
Jackie Tabick
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As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.


N. Scott Momaday
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I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
Maya Angelou
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.


Aaron Carter
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I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
Bob Dylan
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Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.


Friedrich Schiller
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.


Plato
Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.
Deborah Eisenberg
We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil.
Theodor Mommsen
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Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.


Geoffrey Canada
I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
Garry Shandling
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.


Lyndon B. Johnson
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
Edward Bach
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
Kofi Annan
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If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.
Daniel Dennett
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.
Paul Hawken
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.
Ahmet Davutoglu