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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud
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The way you become divine is to become wholly human.


John Shelby Spong
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.


Charles Darwin
I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.
Jimmy Carter
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
Howard Rheingold
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.


Samuel Butler
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It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.


Stone Gossard
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Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.


Robert Andrews Millikan
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson Welles
As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
Albert Claude
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China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights.
Hu Jintao
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Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks.
Tina Brown
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster
When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language.
Laura Branigan
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My middle name is Marshall. A lot of people think it's a stage name, but it's not.


Trevor St. John
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.


Marianne Moore
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
Adam Hochschild
It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.
Alexis Arguello
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It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.
James Henry Breasted