#human being

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? ↗

— Philip Roth

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Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

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When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being. ↗

— Winona Ryder

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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body. ↗

— Klaus Schulze

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I'd like to think I'm a caring human being. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

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