#human being

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts. ↗

— Heywood Broun

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I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. ↗

— Barbara Bush

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People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. ↗

— Jim Carrey

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Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think. ↗

— Dixie Carter

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We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves. ↗

— Jung Chang

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I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't. ↗

— Joan Chen

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And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being. ↗

— Eric Roberts

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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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